Appalachia

[ap-uh-ley-chuh, -ley-chee-uh, -lach-ee-uh, -lach-uh]

noun

1. a region in the eastern United States, in the area of the southern Appalachian Mountains, usually including northeastern Alabama, northwestern Georgia, northwestern South Carolina, western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, western Virginia, eastern Kentucky, West Virginia, western Pennsylvania, and eastern Ohio.

2. Geology.,  a Paleozoic landmass, the erosion of which provided the sediments to form the rocks of the Appalachian Mountains.

Appalachia

/ ˌæpəˈleɪtʃɪə /

noun

1. a highland region of the eastern US, containing the Appalachian Mountains, extending from Pennsylvania to Alabama

Appalachia

1. A mountainous region in the eastern United States, running from northern Alabama to Pennsylvania, and including parts of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and all of West Virginia.

A major coal-mining center and one of the most impoverished regions of the country.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Appalachia¹

First recorded in 1920–25; back formation from Appalachian ( def. )

Example Sentences

It was my junior year of high school and OxyContin was showing up everywhere, in the hallways at school, parties on the weekend and in medicine cabinets all over central Appalachia.

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The group, which describes itself as a “private membership association” that helps groups form “European heritage communities,” plans to build four more sites, including another location in the Ozarks and two in Appalachia.

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The book describes a childhood spent surrounded by poverty and substance abuse in Appalachia, the broad mountainous region which extends across the eastern USA from Canada to the Deep South.

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It also applies to ideas and principles, whether in England, Appalachia or the rest of America.

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Driven by a strong, distinctive raconteur, “Demon Copperhead” paints a nuanced picture of an Appalachia disparaged by others in America.

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