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

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

This part of North Carolina, known as the Piedmont, has lost much of the know-how that defined it for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

A preliminary estimate suggested the earthquake was centered around the corner of Dwight Way and Piedmont Avenue, just a few blocks from the UC Berkeley campus.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2025

But there were all those little hard ones, like Hesse and Tuscany and Piedmont.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier