Piedmont

//ˈpiːdmɒnt// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Formed or lying at the foot of a mountain range. not-comparable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An administrative region in the north of Italy.
  2. 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. 3
    A small city in Calhoun County and Cherokee County, Alabama, United States.
  4. 4
    A city in Alameda County, California, United States.
  5. 5
    A small city in Wayne County, Missouri, United States.
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  1. 6
    A city in Canadian County and Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, United States.
  2. 7
    A census-designated place in Anderson County and Greenville County, South Carolina, United States.
  3. 8
    A small city in Meade County, South Dakota, United States.
  4. 9
    A small town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States.
  5. 10
    A small municipality of Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
  6. 11
    A locality in the Shire of Baw Baw, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
  7. 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. 1
    Any region of foothills of a mountain range.
  2. 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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