Piedmont

[ peed-mont ]

noun

1. a plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains, including parts of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama.
2. Italian Piemonte. a region in NW Italy. 4,540,822; 11,335 sq. mi. (29,360 sq. km).
3. a city in W California, near Oakland.
4. (lowercase) a district lying along or near the foot of a mountain range.

adjective

1. (lowercase) lying along or near the foot of a mountain range.

Piedmont

¹

/ ˈpiːdmɒnt /

noun

1. a region of NW Italy: consists of the upper Po Valley; mainly agricultural. Chief town: Turin. Pop: 4 231 334 (2003 est). Area: 25 399 sq km (9807 sq miles) Italian namePiemonte
2. a low plateau of the eastern US, between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains

piedmont

²

/ ˈpiːdmɒnt /

adjective

1. prenominal (of glaciers, plains, etc) formed or situated at the foot of a mountain or mountain range

piedmont

/ pēd′mŏnt′ /

1. An area of land, glacier, or other feature formed or lying at the foot of a mountain or mountain range.

Piedmont

1. The plateau region of the eastern United States extending from New York to Alabama between the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic coastal plain. Also a historical region of northwest Italy bound by the Swiss and French Alps. More broadly, any region of foothills.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Piedmont¹

From the Italian word Piemonte literally, foothill

Word History and Origins

Origin of Piedmont¹

from Italian piémonte mountain foot

Example Sentences

The Oakland recall against Thao, meanwhile, was heavily funded by hedge fund executive Philip Dreyfuss, who lives in Piedmont, a picturesque city surrounded by Oakland’s borders.

From Los Angeles Times

“We’re the Wall Street of the data centre industry,” says Ms Bolthouse, who is a director of local Virginian charity and campaign group Piedmont Environmental Council.

From BBC

On Tuesday, Thao is facing a recall election, bankrolled in large part by a wealthy hedge fund manager who lives just outside of Oakland in the small city of Piedmont.

From Los Angeles Times

She showed up at Piedmont Henry Hospital in need of a routine procedure to clear it from her uterus, called a dilation and curettage, or D&C.

From Salon

“Nowadays there are more urbane people living in the Piedmont. Nobody’s coming out of the hills doing any of those big, back-throated things.”

From Los Angeles Times