Catskills
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- proper noun
- /ˈkætskɪlz/
- My old man was a cook at a resort in the Catskills for 27 years.
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Watch on YouTubeI had, I had to have a car to go to the Catskills on the weekend to go hiking or jump in some stream always.
- I had, I had to have a car to go to the Catskills on the weekend to go hiking or jump in some stream always.
- And that was the first showcase club that took over from the Catskills as the place where a young comic would be bad, as they say, And we all were.
Examples
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There are more New Yorkers in the Catskills right now than the entire population of my home state.
Fiction book (1992) -
We got a cabin in the Catskills.
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I should have gone on that trip to the Catskills with her and her friends.
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Remember when you went to the Catskills to train?
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When she and Ed had first met one summer at a hotel in the Catskills, she had asked him this.
Fiction book (2000) -
The box is going to become a savings bank for a trip to the Catskills in August.
Blog text (2) -
Oh, I'm going to the Catskills next week!
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They were living in the Catskills.
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De Mille wintered in New York and summered in the Catskills until Hollywood beckoned her father in 1914.
Academic text (1994) -
I should have gone on that trip to the Catskills with her and her friends.
Synonyms
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A mountain range in southeast New York west of the Hudson River known for beautiful views and resorts
Surface Forms
Etymology
Catskills comes from words used by Dutch settlers: the part kill means 'stream' or 'creek', and the first part likely referred to wildcats, so the name meant 'wildcat streams'. That's why the mountain range is called Catskills — it was named for the creeks and animals found in those hills.