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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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Farmers in the Lombardy region, which includes Pavia, accuse those in neighbouring Piedmont of using too much water.

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

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

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

Piedmont was full of people who liked to tell outsiders that they lived in Oakland.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

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

Mr. Martin had a special interest in the mountains and piedmont from Pennsylvania to Virginia, even at times snake hunting around the edges of Washington’s Beltway.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2022

Shortly before the Trail of Tears, William Bartram documented sizable peach orchards in the Cherokee and Creek lands of Appalachia and the Georgia piedmont.

From Slate ● Jan. 5, 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