Asheville
English
Etymology
From Ashe + -ville, named after Samuel Ashe.
Pronunciation
- Homophone: Ashville
Proper noun
Asheville
- A city, the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States.
- 2025 June 26, Marnie Hunter, “‘These mountains are still here.’ Asheville is ready for your visit”, in CNN[1], archived from the original on 3 July 2025:
- The recovery is still a work in progress, given the deadly storm’s massive impact on people across Western North Carolina and its devastation of two popular Asheville neighborhoods — the RAD (“rad”), as locals call it, and nearby Biltmore Village.