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

Finally, she wound up in Tennessee's Cumberland Mountains, nursing the sick, teaching the Bible, and making clothes for the dirt-poor cabin dwellers.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1773 the McAfees led a party of surveyors down the Ohio, crossed Kentucky, and returned over the Cumberland Mountains.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene