Cumberland Gap

American  

noun

1. a pass in the Cumberland Mountains at the junction of the Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee boundaries. 1,315 feet (401 meters) high.

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Cumberland Gap Cultural  

1. Pass through the Cumberland Mountains between Virginia and Kentucky that was used by early settlers to move west.

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Example Sentences

Since the 2020 census, several Tennessee communities have pursued their own second counts, including La Vergne and Cumberland Gap, as have three communities in Washington state - Sumas, Toledo and Springdale.

From Washington Times • Aug. 5, 2023

In the visitor center, I was schooled on westward expansion, frontiersman Daniel Boone and his role in carving out the Cumberland Gap, the primary route west by way of Kentucky.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2020

Steve Sarkisian won nine games his first season but fell the Cumberland Gap short of winning everyone over.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2015

Penix followed the famous frontiersman's route into Virginia and through Cumberland Gap into Kentucky.

From US News • Mar. 26, 2015

It crossed the mountains at Cumberland Gap, wound its way by the most convenient course to Crab Orchard, and was early extended to the Falls of the Ohio and later to Vincennes and St. Louis.

From The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 by Boggess, Arthur Clinton