Ziemkiewicz grew up in Appalachia, outside Pittsburgh, where, he said, "acid mine drainage was just way of life. Streams tended to be orange."
Source: tatoeba (8351036)
Appalachia
//ˌæ.pəˈlæ.tʃə//
Synonyms for "appalachia"
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2 entriesTranslations
27 translations across 22 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- Appalachia name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
Arabic
1 entries- أَبَالَاش name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
Bengali
3 entries- অ্যাপালেচিয়া name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
- অ্যাপালেশিয়া name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
- অ্যাপাল্যাচা name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
Chinese
1 entries- 阿巴拉契亞 /阿巴拉契亚 name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 阿巴拉契亞 /阿巴拉契亚 name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 阿巴拉契亞 /阿巴拉契亚 name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
Dutch
1 entries- Appalachia name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
Finnish
1 entries- Appalachia name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
French
1 entries- Appalaches name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
Hakka Chinese
1 entries- 阿巴拉契亞 /阿巴拉契亚 name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
Indonesian
1 entries- Appalachia name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
Japanese
1 entries- アパラチア name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
Latin
1 entries- Appalachia name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- آپالاش name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
Persian
3 entries- آپالاش name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
- آپالاشیا name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
- آپالاچیا name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
Portuguese
2 entries- Apaláchia name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
- Appalachia name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
Scots
1 entries- Appalachia name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
Spanish
1 entries- Appalachia name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
Thai
1 entries- แอปพาเลเชีย name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
Turkish
1 entries- Apalaş name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
Urdu
1 entries- ایپلاچا name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
Vietnamese
1 entries- Appalachia name (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
In Appalachia, no ecosystem is better at capturing carbon dioxide than red spruce forests.
Source: tatoeba (11052840)
A thick forest of pine trees encircles their subdivision, and beyond that, in the distance, is the shadow of the mountain, one of those low hills at the cusp of Appalachia in northern Alabama.
Source: wiktionary
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