Appalachian Mountains
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- proper noun
- /ˌæpəˈleɪtʃən ˈmaʊntənz/
- Nearly three feet of snow fell in some communities in the Appalachian Mountains.
Examples
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A year later, the women gather again for a caving expedition in the Appalachian Mountains.
Blog text (25) -
For the first nine years of my life, I grew up in the shadows of the Appalachian Mountains, and for the next nine years in the green farmlands of Maryland.
Academic text (2003) -
The base spreads at the eastern slope of the Appalachian Mountains.
Fiction book (1993) -
The road twisted around the contour of the Appalachian Mountains.
Fiction book (1990) -
Salamander diversity is highest not in the tropics but in the eastern United States, including the Appalachian Mountains.
Academic text (2007) -
The route proposed by the governor called for a line that would cross the Appalachian Mountains and terminate near Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Academic text (2007) -
Appalshop is a media arts production facility nestled in the Appalachian Mountains in Whitesburg, Kentucky.
Academic text (1994) -
But ARS scientists are breeding new varieties of fresh-market peaches that grow well in the Appalachian Mountains, as far north as central Pennsylvania.
Academic text (1994) -
Before removal in the 1830s, Cherokees lived in the valleys of the southern Appalachian Mountains, where they constructed towns and organized themselves socially by a clan system.
Academic text (2010) -
Most of my hiking has been in the Appalachian Mountains around Virginia.
Synonyms
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A long group of mountains in eastern North America from southeastern Canada to central Alabama
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward compositional place name: 'Appalachian' (relating to the Appalachia region) combined with 'mountains' directly yields the meaning 'mountains in the Appalachian region.' Such proper-name + geographic-term compounds are cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Appalachian Mountains comes from a Native American people called the 'Apalachee'. Early Spanish explorers used that name for the land, and later people used it for the long mountain range, so the mountains are 'named after' the people.