Berkshire Hills
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- proper noun
- /ˈbɜrkʃɪr hɪlz/
- The fall foliage in the Berkshire Hills attracts photographers from all over the country.
Examples
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The Berkshire Hills are famous for their stunning fall foliage.
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Every summer, tourists flock to the Berkshire Hills for outdoor activities and music festivals.
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Many artists and writers find inspiration in the natural beauty of the Berkshire Hills.
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Many tourists visit the Berkshire Hills each summer.
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The campus, nestled in Massachusetts' Berkshire Hills, is full of history.
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Located on more than 150 rolling acres in the Berkshire Hills, Jacob's Pillow has been introducing audiences to renowned dance artists since 1942.
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They often visited Oliver Wendell Holmes, who, along with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, came from Boston to summer in the Berkshire Hills.
Synonyms
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5.4
A low mountain area and popular resort region in western Massachusetts known for beautiful scenery
Surface Forms
Morphology
Berkshire + hill
The noun 'hill' clearly signals a landscape feature so a learner who knows 'hill' will infer this refers to some hills or a hilly region; the pattern '[Place] Hills' is cross-linguistically common and thus the basic locational/landscape meaning is recoverable. However, 'Berkshire' is a proper name without lexical meaning, so specific information in the definition (a low mountain range in western Massachusetts known for resorts and scenic beauty) is not derivable from the constituents alone.
Etymology
Berkshire Hills may come from settlers who named the area after the English county of Berkshire, because the rolling green hills reminded them of home. That's why Berkshire Hills now means 'a low mountain range in western Massachusetts known for its resorts and scenic beauty'.