piedmont
/ˈpiːdmɒnt/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.12 in modern English
Meaning
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An administrative region in the north of Italy.
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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.
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A small city in Calhoun County and Cherokee County, Alabama, United States.
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A city in Alameda County, California, United States.
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A small city in Wayne County, Missouri, United States.
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A city in Canadian County and Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, United States.
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A census-designated place in Anderson County and Greenville County, South Carolina, United States.
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A small city in Meade County, South Dakota, United States.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The rise of an independent Bulgarian state challenged the view of many Serbs that they were the "Piedmont" of the Balkans, the ones to unify all Balkan Slavs."
- "The more influental National Democratic party was founded in 1899, and it hoped to work through existing channels in Austria to create a separate Ukrainian province of eastern Galicia, which someday might become the Piedmont of an independent Ukrainian state on both sides of the Austro-Russian border."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Piemonte, Pedemontium, ad