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piedmont

/ˈpidˌmɑnt/

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What does piedmont mean?

noun

  1. Any region of foothills of a mountain range.

adjective

  1. Formed or lying at the foot of a mountain range.

proper noun

  1. An administrative region in the north of Italy.
More meanings (11)

proper noun

  1. 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.
  2. A small city in Calhoun County and Cherokee County, Alabama, United States.
  3. A city in Alameda County, California, United States.
  4. A small city in Wayne County, Missouri, United States.
  5. A city in Canadian County and Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, United States.
  6. A census-designated place in Anderson County and Greenville County, South Carolina, United States.
  7. A small city in Meade County, South Dakota, United States.
  8. A small town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States.
  9. A small municipality of Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
  10. A locality in the Shire of Baw Baw, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
  11. Any region that could serve as a basis for national unification, as Piedmont did for the Italian Risorgimento.
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IPA pronunciation

/ˈpidˌmɑnt/

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The survey of Savoy and Piedmont was executed under the orders of the late king of Sardinia.
Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3300
The discovery of two nunataks springing out of the piedmont glacier to the south, lured us on.
Douglas, Sir MawsonThe Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914Project Gutenberg ebook #6137
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John Lombe succeeded in getting employment in a silk mill in Piedmont, where the art of silk-throwing was kept a secret.
Samuel SmilesMen of Invention and IndustryProject Gutenberg ebook #725
The late frosts do more injury to them, than to the mulberries of Piedmont.
Alexander von Humboldt; Aimé BonplandPersonal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1Translated by Thomasina RossProject Gutenberg ebook #6322
I took a party across rubbly and waterlogged ice to within thirty yards of the piedmont ice, but owing to high cliffs and loose slushy ice could not make a landing.
Ernest Henry, Sir ShackletonSouth: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917Project Gutenberg ebook #5199