Apennines
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- proper noun
- /ˈæpəˌnaɪnz/
- The ornamentation of loggias intensified the pictorial quality of the architectural promulgation of political messages south of the Apennines.
- south of the Apennines
Examples
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On clear days, Verdi could see across the flat Po River plain, with its lines of tall poplars, the Apennines rising on one side, the Alps on the other.
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Save the occasional yellow leaf, the trees were already bare, and the fog clung to the foothills of the Apennines all along our endless ascent.
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The Germans retreated into the Apennines.
Fiction book (2002) -
In Udolpho, Emily is taken from France to Udolpho, a castle in the Apennines.
Academic text (2007) -
In the Apennines, on the other hand, there are some heavy-ore deposits that have a great deal of resistance and simply force things up out of that place.
Fiction book (1995) -
He habitually used the region of the Apennines above Bologna at other times, when time and temperature permitted it.
Blog text (26) -
Save the occasional yellow leaf, the trees were already bare, and the fog clung to the foothills of the Apennines all along our endless ascent.
Fiction book (2001) -
The social space created in loggias in guild-strong republics south of the Apennines mirrored the productivity found in similarly scaled shop spaces.
Academic text (2015) -
The Tiber flows from the Apennines at Mount Fumaiolo through Rome and into the Tyrrhenian Sea at Ostia.
Synonyms
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1.8
A long line of connected mountains that forms a high area
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5.1
A long mountain range that runs down the middle of Italy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Apennines comes from the Latin name Appenninus, probably from an old word for 'head' or 'top', the same idea behind the English mountains called the Pennines. So the Apennines are like Italy's 'backbone' — a long high ridge running down the middle of the country.