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Piedmont
//ˈpiːdmɒnt// adj, name, noun
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Formed or lying at the foot of a mountain range. not-comparable
Proper Noun
- 1 An administrative region in the north of Italy.
- 2 A geographic region and plateau of the eastern United States, between the Appalachian mountains and the coastal plain, extending from eastern Alabama to northern New Jersey.
- 3 A small city in Calhoun County and Cherokee County, Alabama, United States.
- 4 A city in Alameda County, California, United States.
- 5 A small city in Wayne County, Missouri, United States.
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- 6 A city in Canadian County and Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, United States.
- 7 A census-designated place in Anderson County and Greenville County, South Carolina, United States.
- 8 A small city in Meade County, South Dakota, United States.
- 9 A small town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States.
- 10 A small municipality of Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
- 11 A locality in the Shire of Baw Baw, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
- 12 Any region that could serve as a basis for national unification, as Piedmont did for the Italian Risorgimento.
"As it was, Greece had no 'Piedmont' with which to begin her Unification – no Piedmont to make alliances with other states, no Piedmontese bureaucracy and diplomatic service, no well-equipped and well-supplied regular army."
Noun
- 1 Any region of foothills of a mountain range.
- 2 a gentle slope leading from the base of a mountain to a region of flat land wordnet
Etymology
Etymology 1
Derived from Italian Piemonte (“mountain foot”), from Medieval Latin Pedemontium, Pedemontis, from Latin ad pedem montium.
Etymology 2
From Piedmont, ultimately from Italian piemonte (“foot of a mountain”); cognate with French piémont.
Etymology 3
From Piedmont, ultimately from Italian piemonte (“foot of a mountain”); cognate with French piémont.
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