An area of land formed or lying at the foot of a mountain or mountain range.
adj.
Of, relating to, or constituting such an area of land.
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n.
An area of land formed or lying at the foot of a mountain or mountain range.
adj.
Of, relating to, or constituting such an area of land.
An area of land formed or lying at the foot of a mountain or mountain range.
adj.
Of, relating to, or constituting such an area of land.
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Located or developed at the foot of mountains. A piedmont flat is a slightly undulating, residual landscape formed around a mountainous upland. The Harz, surrounding the highlands of the Brocken, is a typical example. A piedmont glacier is one formed from the merger of several alpine glacier as they emerge from the mountains.
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piedmont, any area near the foot of a mountain, particularly the plateau (the Piedmont) extending from New York to Alabama E of the Appalachian Mts. and W of the Atlantic coastal plain. In Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina it is E of the Blue Ridge Mts. The plateau is cut by numerous small rivers, whose fall line is along the eastern edge of the plateau. "Piedmont" is French for "foothills."
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Piedmont is a region of northwestern Italy
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History
Geography
- Piedmont (United States), a region of the eastern United States
- Piedmont, Quebec
- Piedmont, Alabama
- Piedmont, California
- Piedmont, Missouri
- Piedmont, North Carolina
- Piedmont, Nova Scotia
- Piedmont, Oklahoma
- Piedmont, South Carolina
- Piedmont, South Dakota
- Piedmont, Virginia
- Piedmont, West Virginia
- Piedmont, Wyoming
- Piedmont, Arizona, setting for part of the science fiction book The Andromeda Strain
- Colorado Piedmont, a region of Colorado
- Piedmont, Utah, fictional setting for part of the miniseries The Andromeda Strain (miniseries)
Colleges
- Piedmont College, a private liberal arts school in Demorest, Georgia
- Piedmont Community College, a two-year college in Person and Caswell counties in North Carolina
- Piedmont Technical College, a two-year college in the Lakelands region of South Carolina
- Central Piedmont Community College, a community college in Charlotte, North Carolina
- Piedmont Virginia Community College, a two-year college in Albemarle County, Virginia
- Piedmont Baptist College, a Bible college and seminary in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- South Piedmont Community College, a community college in Anson and Union counties in North Carolina
Other uses
- Piedmont (1917 automobile)
- Piedmont Airlines, a regional airline operating under the name US Airways Express
- Piedmont Airlines (1948-1989), an airline that was merged into US Air
- Piedmont blues or "Piedmont fingerstyle", a style of blues guitar playing
- Piedmont League, defunct minor league baseball organization
- The Piedmont, an Amtrak passenger train, part of the Carolinian and Piedmont
People with the surname
- Matt Piedmont, American Emmy Award-winning writer
See also
- Foothills
- Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia
- Piedmont Triad, a region centered around three cities in North Carolina
- Piedmont Crescent, a geographical phenomenon of urban areas arranged in a crescent shape in North Carolina
- Piedmont Park, a major city park in Atlanta, Georgia
- Piedmont Road in Milpitas, California
- Piedmont Heights (Duluth), a neighborhood in the city of Duluth, Minnesota
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