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  Piedmont

  noun

  a plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains, including parts of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama.
• piedmont
  piedmont

  adjective

  (prenominal) (of glaciers, plains, etc) formed or situated at the foot of a mountain or mountain range

Piedmont

American  

[peed-mont] / ˈpid mɒnt /

noun

1. a plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains, including parts of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama.

2. Italian Piemonte. a region in NW Italy. 4,540,822; 11,335 sq. mi. (29,360 sq. km).

3. a city in W California, near Oakland.

4. (lowercase) a district lying along or near the foot of a mountain range.

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adjective

1. (lowercase) lying along or near the foot of a mountain range.

Piedmont ¹ British  

/ ˈpiːdmɒnt /

noun

1. Italian name: Piemonte. a region of NW Italy: consists of the upper Po Valley; mainly agricultural. Chief town: Turin. Pop: 4 231 334 (2003 est). Area: 25 399 sq km (9807 sq miles)

2. a low plateau of the eastern US, between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains

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piedmont ² British  

/ ˈpiːdmɒnt /

adjective

1. (prenominal) (of glaciers, plains, etc) formed or situated at the foot of a mountain or mountain range

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piedmont Scientific  

/ pēd′mŏnt′ /

1. An area of land, glacier, or other feature formed or lying at the foot of a mountain or mountain range.

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Piedmont Cultural  

1. The plateau region of the eastern United States extending from New York to Alabama between the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic coastal plain. Also a historical region of northwest Italy bound by the Swiss and French Alps. More broadly, any region of foothills.

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Etymology

Origin of Piedmont

From the Italian word Piemonte literally, foothill

Example Sentences

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Equity investors are essentially betting on a just-right scenario in which inflation cools while the job market holds steady, said Mark Vitner, chief economist at Piedmont Crescent Capital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

He died on Thursday in Bra, a town in Italy's north-western Piedmont region, Slow Food said.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

Producers also want to strengthen their tourism offerings for food enthusiasts, as Piedmont and Tuscany have already done for wine.

From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026

Milan is Italy's second-largest city after Rome, and its metropolitan area stretches across much of Lombardy and into eastern Piedmont.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2026

Would she miss the rolling blue hills of Virginias Piedmont, or fall in love with the great expanse of the Chesapeake Bay and the many rivers, inlets, and wetlands that embroidered the Virginia coast?

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

He grew up a poor “little nobody,” as he has described it, in Jamestown, a one-traffic-light town in North Carolina’s agricultural piedmont.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025

Now, it is a larger and maturing display that shows how you can take the plants of the Mid-Atlantic mountains, piedmont and coastal plain and use them in pleasing combinations.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2021

It thrives in Alabama piedmont, Louisiana bayous, the Carolina coastal plain, and the suburban sprawls of Atlanta, Nashville, Raleigh, and Birmingham.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2021

Looking at the painting, as an Atlanta native, I recognized, in a general way, the rolling, tree-covered piedmont landscape and blood-stained red clay.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 6, 2019

They camped that night in the woods on a ridge overlooking the broad piedmont plain where it stretched away to the south.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy