Cumberland Mountains

American  

plural noun

1. a plateau largely in Kentucky and Tennessee, a part of the Appalachian Mountains: highest point, about 4,000 feet (1,220 meters).

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Cumberland Mountains Cultural  

1. Southwestern division of the Appalachian Mountains; sometimes called the Cumberland Plateau.

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Example Sentences

Mrs. Nelson was born Carrie Lee Dotson in Wise, Va., in the Cumberland Mountains of Appalachia, the ninth of 10 children, and she grew up in an area known as “Dotson Holler.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2021

By early afternoon Saturday, more than 80 Letcher County residents lined up outside an unassuming house overlooking the once-booming coal town of Jenkins, tucked into the shadow of the Cumberland Mountains on the Virginia border.

From Washington Times • Dec. 24, 2019

The youngest of 14 children, Ms. Ritchie grew up in Kentucky’s Cumberland Mountains, where her family had lived since the 18th century.

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2015

The University of the South, perched on a plateau in the Cumberland Mountains at Sewanee, Tenn., represents excellence in education wrapped in a tiny package.

From Time Magazine Archive

I started off in a southwesterly course, over the Cumberland Mountains, and went about seventy miles through a heavily timbered country.

From The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite by Lewis, Alfred Henry