piedmont
- noun
- /ˈpiːdˌmɒnt/
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piedemonte
- Farmers in the piedmont often enjoy fertile soil that is perfect for growing a variety of crops.
- the upper piedmont
Examples
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Puyo and Tena belong to a well-defined populist settlement frontier in the western piedmont sector of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Academic text (2000) -
Most likely following the Great Wagon Road descending through the west-central Carolinas, the Mannings stopped at Saunders Cross Roads, just north of the fall line in Georgia's lower piedmont.
Academic text (2011) -
As cotton production boomed, the piedmont towns' function as staging centers for cotton shipments to the coast grew in importance.
Academic text (2007) -
By providing access to new lands, the piedmont roads attracted waves of Andean migrants who were eager to settle along the highways and plant bananas and tobacco or raise cattle.
Academic text (1996) -
Some areas even specialized in the production of long-distance trade products, such as salt on the Yucatan coast and cacao along the Pacific piedmont of Chiapas, Mexico, and in Guatemala.
Academic text (1992) -
At such a height, the piedmont along the fall line resembled an old medieval tapestry where everything the people do—eat, drink, and sport—is bordered by woods.
Fiction book (1998) -
The dominant forest cover of oaks, hickories, and pines is reminiscent of the southeastern piedmont and mountains, although the diversity, distribution, and affiliations of species are markedly different.
Academic text (2011) -
The gentle slopes of the piedmont region provide an ideal setting for hiking and exploring nature.
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In the piedmont, the terrain gradually rises from the flat lands to the towering mountains in the distance.
Synonyms
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1.4
A part of land that goes up or down like the side of a hill
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3.2
A low hill at the base of a mountain
Compounds
- Specialized
A large mass of ice that forms when ice in valleys join and spread out at a mountain base
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Piedmont comes from words that mean 'foot' (pied) and 'mountain' (mont). Think 'foot of the mountain' — a low slope or foothill before the flat land, so a piedmont is the gentle slope at the base of a mountain.