Taconic
Taconic proper noun: a mountain range in New England, United States; A low mountain range in eastern New York, western Massachusetts, and southwestern Vermont.
Proper noun
Taconic
- A mountain range in New England, United States; A low mountain range in eastern New York, western Massachusetts, and southwestern Vermont.
- Synonyms:
- Taconic Mountains
- A hamlet in the town of Salisbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut.
- A town in New York, United States.
- The geological process that resulted in the precursor to the modern Taconic mountain range and shaped much of the Appalachian range, or the time period in the early Silurian during which this occurred
- Synonyms:
- Taconic orogeny
Adjective
Taconic (not comparable)
- Relating to the geological process which created the Taconic mountain range.
Synonyms of Taconic
- Taconic Mountains
- Taconic orogeny
Forms of Taconic
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Origin of Taconic
From Tacony (a certain river) + -ic. The river's name is borrowed from Unami tèkhane (literally “cold river”), from tè inan (“cold”) + -hàne (“river”). Other early spellings include Taughkannuc.
Words formed from Taconic
- Taconic Mountains
- Taconic orogeny
- taconite
Questions about Taconic
- What does Taconic mean?
- Taconic means a mountain range in New England, United States; A low mountain range in eastern New York, western Massachusetts, and southwestern Vermont.
- What part of speech is Taconic?
- Taconic can be a proper noun or an adjective.
Words near Taconic in the dictionary
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