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

A wall of new natural gas demand is set to test aging and pipe-constrained basins from Louisiana to Appalachia and drive prices higher.

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In many ways, today’s political centrists, institutionalists and other mainstream types are like the workers in an early 20th century coal town in Appalachia.

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In 2018, looking for a calmer life, we moved to the country, deep in Appalachia.

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Additionally, her hardscrabble background growing up in rural Appalachia without running water provided an authentic up-by-her-bootstraps story.

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The company has retired about 200 wells across Appalachia annually in recent years, according to its 2024 sustainability report, most of them through a subsidiary that focuses on cleanup.

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