piedmont
/ˈpiːdmɒnt/
piedmont noun: any region of foothills of a mountain range.
Noun
piedmont (plural piedmonts)
Adjective
piedmont (not comparable)
- Formed or lying at the foot of a mountain range.
Proper noun capitalized: Piedmont
Piedmont
- An administrative region in the north of Italy.
- A geographic region and plateau of the eastern United States, between the Appalachian mountains and the coastal plain, extending from eastern Alabama to northern New Jersey.
- A small city in Calhoun County and Cherokee County, Alabama, United States.
- A city in Alameda County, California, United States.
- A small city in Wayne County, Missouri, United States.
- A city in Canadian County and Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, United States.
- A census-designated place in Anderson County and Greenville County, South Carolina, United States.
- A small city in Meade County, South Dakota, United States.
- A small town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States.
- A small municipality of Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
- A locality in the Shire of Baw Baw, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
- Any region that could serve as a basis for national unification, as Piedmont did for the Italian Risorgimento.
- As it was, Greece had no 'Piedmont' with which to begin her Unification – no Piedmont to make alliances with other states, no Piedmontese bureaucracy and diplomatic service, no well-equipped and well-supplied regular army.1972, Dakin, The Unification of Greece, 1770–1923, →ISBN, page 262
- The rise of an independent Bulgarian state challenged the view of many Serbs that they were the "Piedmont" of the Balkans, the ones to unify all Balkan Slavs.1994, White, The Territorial Component of Nationalism in Southeastern Europe: The Cases of the Hungarians, Romanians, and Serbs, page 273
piedmont meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
piedmont in Hindi
- पीडमोंट, पीडमॉन्ट, पाइडमोंट
piedmont in Tamil
- மலையடி, அடிவாரம், மலையடிக்குரிய
piedmont in Marathi
- पीडमॉन्ट, पीडमोंट, पायडमॉन्ट
piedmont in Urdu
- دامن کوہ
More languagesFewer languages
- piedmont in Bengali
- পাইডমন্ট, পিডমন্ট, পাইডমণ্ট
- piedmont in Telugu
- పీడ్మాంట్, పీడ్మోంట్, పైడ్మాంట్
- piedmont in Malayalam
- പീഡ്മോണ്ട്, പീഡ്മാൻ്റ്, പീഡ് മോണ്ട്
- piedmont in Kannada
- ಪೀಡ್ಮಾಂಟ್, ಪೀಡ್ಮೋಂಟ್, ಪೀಡ್ಮಂಟ್
- piedmont in Punjabi
- ਪੀਡਮੋਂਟ, ਪਾਈਡਮੋਂਟ, ਪਾਇਡਮੋਂਟ
- piedmont in Gujarati
- પાઇડમોન્ટ, પીડમોંટ, પીડમૉન્ટ
- piedmont in Odia
- ପିଡମଣ୍ଟ, ପାଇଡମଣ୍ଟ, ପାଇଡମୋଣ୍ଟ
- piedmont in Nepali
- पाइडमन्ट, पिडमन्ट, पाइडमोन्ट
Forms of piedmont
| plural | piedmonts |
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Origin of piedmont
From Piedmont, ultimately from Italian piemonte (“foot of a mountain”); cognate with French piémont.
Derived from Italian Piemonte (“mountain foot”), from Medieval Latin Pedemontium, Pedemontis, from Latin ad pedem montium.
Words formed from piedmont
Questions about piedmont
- What does piedmont mean?
- Piedmont means any region of foothills of a mountain range.
- What is piedmont in Hindi?
- Piedmont in Hindi is पीडमोंट, पीडमॉन्ट, पाइडमोंट. See Piedmont meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is piedmont?
- Piedmont can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce piedmont?
- Piedmont is pronounced /ˈpiːdmɒnt/.
- What is the plural of piedmont?
- The plural of piedmont is piedmonts.
Words near piedmont in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: piedmont (page history and authors); Piedmont (page history and authors); piedmont (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); piedmont (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); piedmont (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); piedmont (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); piedmont (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); piedmont (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); piedmont (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); piedmont (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); piedmont (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); piedmont (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); piedmont (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); piedmont (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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