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Piedmont en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈpiːdmɒnt/
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Etymology

Derived from Italian Piemonte (“mountain foot”), from Medieval Latin Pedemontium, Pedemontis, from Latin ad pedem montium.

Meanings

  1. An administrative region in the north of Italy.
  2. A geographic region and plateau of the eastern United States, between the Appalachian mountains and the coastal plain, extending from eastern Alabama to northern New Jersey.
  3. A small city in Calhoun County and Cherokee County, Alabama, United States.
  4. A city in Alameda County, California, United States.
  5. A small city in Wayne County, Missouri, United States.
  6. A city in Canadian County and Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, United States.
  7. A census-designated place in Anderson County and Greenville County, South Carolina, United States.
  8. A small city in Meade County, South Dakota, United States.
  9. A small town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States.
  10. A small municipality of Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
  11. A locality in the Shire of Baw Baw, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
  12. Any region that could serve as a basis for national unification, as Piedmont did for the Italian Risorgimento.
    • The rise of an independent Bulgarian state challenged the view of many Serbs that they were the "Piedmont" of the Balkans, the ones to unify all Balkan Slavs. 1994, White, The Territorial Component of Nationalism in Southeastern Europe: The Cases of the Hungarians, Romanians, and Serbs, page 273:
    • The more influental National Democratic party was founded in 1899, and it hoped to work through existing channels in Austria to create a separate Ukrainian province of eastern Galicia, which someday might become the Piedmont of an independent Ukrainian state on both sides of the Austro-Russian border. 2002, Magocsi, The Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism: Galicia as Ukraine's Piedmont, →ISBN, page 20:
    • As it was, Greece had no 'Piedmont' with which to begin her Unification – no Piedmont to make alliances with other states, no Piedmontese bureaucracy and diplomatic service, no well-equipped and well-supplied regular army. 1972, Dakin, The Unification of Greece, 1770–1923, →ISBN, page 262:

Deriveds

Piedmontize · Piedmontese · Piedmontization · piedmontite · Piedmont blues

Meronyms

Turin (administrative region of Italy) · Vercelli (administrative region of Italy) · Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (administrative region of Italy) · Asti (administrative region of Italy) · Novara (administrative region of Italy) · Cuneo (administrative region of Italy) · Alessandria (administrative region of Italy) · Biella (administrative region of Italy)

Translations (50)

el Πεδεμόντιο (region of Italy) · ko 피에몬테 주 (region of Italy) · it Piemonte (region of Italy) · vec Piemonte (region of Italy) · wa Pîmont (region of Italy) · ar بييمونتي (region of Italy) · fr Piémont (region of Italy) · sv Piemonte (region of Italy) · pms Piemont (region of Italy) · de Piemont (region of Italy) · rm Piemont (region of Italy) · fur Piemont (region of Italy) · th ปีเยมอนเต (region of Italy) · oc Piemont (region of Italy) · gl Piemonte (region of Italy) · fi Piemonte (region of Italy) · nl Piëmont (region of Italy) · egl Piemånt (region of Italy) · es Piamonte (region of Italy) · ru Пьемо́нт (region of Italy) · hu Piemont (region of Italy) · frp Piemont (region of Italy) · uk П'ємо́нт (region of Italy) · az Pyemont (region of Italy) · bg Пиемо́нт (region of Italy) · he פִּיֶימוֹנְטֶה (region of Italy) · pt Piemonte (region of Italy) · lt Pjemontas (region of Italy) · ga Píodmant (region of Italy) · is Fjallaland (region of Italy) · fy Piëmont (region of Italy) · cmn 皮埃蒙特 (region of Italy) · pl Piemont (region of Italy) · fa پیدمونت (region of Italy) · da Piemonte (region of Italy) · lv Pjemonta (region of Italy) · cs Piemont (region of Italy) · ja ピエモンテ (region of Italy) · ro Piemont (region of Italy) · ka პიემონტი (region of Italy) · sh Пијѐмонт (region of Italy) · io Piemont (region of Italy) · ca Piemont (region of Italy) · nap Piemunte (region of Italy) · la Pedemontium (region of Italy) · lmo Piemont (region of Italy) · tr Piyemonte (region of Italy) · sh Pijèmont (region of Italy) · lij Piemonte (region of Italy) · hy Պիեմոնտ (region of Italy)