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A piedmont is the area of land that lies at the base of a mountain or a line of mountains - the , foothill area between the flat lowland and the steep peaks. use this word to describe such regions, and it's also a proper name for real places, like the Piedmont region in Italy or the Piedmont area of the southeastern United States.
(地理)山麓地帶
組成pied- (foot, from French 'pied') + mont (mountain, from French 'mont'). So it literally means 'foot of the mountain.'
同家族的字
- mountshares the piece 'mont/mount' meaning mountain
原始詞典資料14 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Piedmontname/ˈpiːdmɒnt/
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An administrative region in the north of Italy.
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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.
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A small city in Calhoun County and Cherokee County, Alabama, United States.
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A city in Alameda County, California, United States.
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A small city in Wayne County, Missouri, United States.
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A city in Canadian County and Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, United States.
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A census-designated place in Anderson County and Greenville County, South Carolina, United States.
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A small city in Meade County, South Dakota, United States.
另外 4 個記錄的用法
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A small town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States.
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A small municipality of Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
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A locality in the Shire of Baw Baw, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
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historiographyhistoryhuman-sciencesAny region that could serve as a basis for national unification, as Piedmont did for the Italian Risorgimento.
- 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.
- 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.
piedmontnoun/ˈpiːdmɒnt/
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Any region of foothills of a mountain range.
piedmontadj/ˈpiːdmɒnt/
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Formed or lying at the foot of a mountain range.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。