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Cumberland Mountains

Cumberland Mountains

4.8
A mountain range in the southwestern Appalachians that runs from southern West Virginia through eastern Kentucky to northeastern Tennessee
  • proper noun
translation icon : Montañas Cumberland
  • Coal mining once played a major role in the economy of the Cumberland Mountains region.

Examples

  • The Cumberland Mountains are renowned for their biodiversity and scenic landscapes.

  • Many hikers dream of exploring the rugged beauty of the Cumberland Mountains.

  • The Cumberland Mountains are known for their stunning scenery.

  • Have you ever visited the Cumberland Mountains?

  • Many hikers dream of exploring the rugged beauty of the Cumberland Mountains.

  • The Cumberland Mountains are renowned for their biodiversity and scenic landscapes.

  • Coal mining once played a major role in the economy of the Cumberland Mountains region.

Surface Forms

Cumberland Mountains main

Morphology

Cumberland + mountain

The phrase is a straightforward toponym composed of a place-name (Cumberland) plus 'mountains', so a learner who knows 'mountain' and recognizes 'Cumberland' as a place will correctly infer it refers to the mountains in that region. This place-name + geographic feature pattern is cross-linguistically common and fully compositional, making the meaning predictable from the parts.

Etymology

Cumberland Mountains comes from early British explorers and settlers who used a familiar name from England, either the county of Cumberland or the 'Duke of Cumberland', to name these high hills. That's why we still call the range the Cumberland Mountains today.