Catskill Mountains
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- proper noun
- /ˈkætskɪl ˈmaʊntənz/
- Catskill Mountains in New York
- New York Catskill Mountains
Examples
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We brought him all the way from Kutscher's Country Club in the Catskill Mountains.
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Will Nixon is an essayist and poet who lives in the Catskill Mountains of New York.
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For hundreds of years, wild ginseng has been dug out of the forests of the New York Catskill Mountains.
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The pace of life is relaxed, appreciative of the surrounding beauty of the low-rolling Catskill Mountains and the many streams that cut through them.
Synonyms
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A range of mountains in southeast New York popular for hiking and weekend trips
Surface Forms
Morphology
Catskill + mountain
The phrase is a proper-name + noun composition: a learner who knows 'mountain' and recognizes 'Catskill' as a place name can transparently infer it denotes mountains called Catskill (i.e., a mountain area). However, the detailed sense (that it is a specific mountain range in southeastern New York and its resort/scenic status) is encyclopedic and not derivable from the constituents—'Catskill' itself is not semantically compositional—so full meaning requires prior exposure or world knowledge.
Etymology
The name Catskill Mountains may come from old Dutch settlers. They used kill to mean a small 'stream', and one popular story says people saw wild cats near a stream and so called the place Cats Kill meaning 'cat stream', which then became the name of the mountains.