Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An area of land formed or lying at the foot of a mountain or mountain range.
- adj. Of, relating to, or constituting such an area of land.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From Piedmont, ultimately from Italian piémonte ("foot of a mountain"); cognate with French piémont. (Wiktionary)
- After Piedmont . (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The sharp relief of the mountains, with their grass-covered summits, precipitous slopes and flat open piedmont, is formed by a ridge of iron-quartzite emerging from softer metamorphic rocks.”
“The inspiration came from having carne crudo (and nebbiolo) that is so ubiquitous in piedmont.”
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“At the base of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountains, shallow soils derived from sedimentary rocks support a particular community known as piedmont scrub.”
“During the 18th and 19th centuries, in the middle Atlantic and particularly in the Southern states, there was a long-standing cleavage between the coastal and 'piedmont' regions on the one hand and the upcountry areas to the west on the other.”
“Looks like the second ruts is kicking in around my home in the lower piedmont now.”
“What I mean is that North Carolina, as every schoolchild knows, has three distinct regions: coastal plain, piedmont, and mountains.”
“Her novels cover a great deal of territory, from the mills of the piedmont to the Donner Party and the Nevada desert to children suffering with chronic illness -- she contains multitudes.”
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“Weathering also left a gigantic sheet of hard iron-quartzite jutting out of the eroded piedmont schists and granite gneiss.”
“This crusts over the whole glacis of the eastern and northern parts of the piedmont giving very poor soils, usually skeletal lithosols if present at all.”
“The piedmont savanna is patchy, varying according to its degree of laterization and pan-development; in places it is marshy overlying rock pavement.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘piedmont’.
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Land
A list of terms for land, landholdings, or words that contain the string -land-.
scabland, wheatland, cornland, slander, land-locked, dryland, riceland, clandestine, acreage, island, Iceland, Greenland and 269 more...
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Capitonyms or capitonyms
Capitonyms are, properly, words which change meaning and sound when they change case. This particular list may also erringly include words which change meaning, but not sound. These are improper. S...
Turkey, turkey, China, china, August, august, Bill, bill, Catholic, catholic, Ionic, ionic and 94 more...
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Capitonyms, capitonyms
Words that change meaning when capitalized
worms, welsh, turkey, time, tangier, tang, slough, seat, scotch, scone, said, russian and 70 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Cessilind's Words
dvorak, ingenuity, cessation, oblique, transverse, anvilicious, evoke, verisimilitude, integrity, strega, recumbent, depression and 164 more...
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TheLastGoodNameLeft
The Last Good Words Left
ephemera, gammon, errata, ellipses, octopi, heteronormative, polyp, intersectionality, theses, california, halfback, fullback and 555 more...
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the road
glaucoma, tarpaulin, flowstone, flue, rimstone, alabaster, gully, shoring, grike, riprap, windfall, transom and 120 more...
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Lay of the Land
all kinds of scapes
steppe, veld, veldt, campo, llano, taiga, krummholz, elfinwood, tundra, sward, lea, heath and 197 more...
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above the fruited plain
US regions with interesting names
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Decorator's Lexicon
swatch, sconce, egg and dart, dentil, baseboard, chair rail, molding, wainscotting, arts and crafts, faux, biedermeier, empire and 36 more...
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Cormac McCarthy - The Road
stoven, bollard, travois, bindle, gimballed, excelsior, amidships, tidewrack, bracken, transom, harrowtrough, envacuuming and 34 more...
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