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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

piedmont

2

/ ˈpiːdmɒnt /

adjective

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

/ pēdmŏnt′ /

  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.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Piedmont1

From the Italian word Piemonte literally, foothill
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Piedmont1

from Italian piémonte mountain foot
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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.

“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.

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.”

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