APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Appalachian Mountains mean? 

• APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS (noun)
  The noun APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS has 1 sense:

1. a mountain range in the eastern United States extending from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico; a historic barrier to early westward expansion of the United States

  Familiarity information: APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mountain range in the eastern United States extending from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico; a historic barrier to early westward expansion of the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Appalachian Mountains; Appalachians

Instance hypernyms:

chain; chain of mountains; mountain chain; mountain range; range; range of mountains (a series of hills or mountains)

Meronyms (parts of "Appalachian Mountains"):

Appalachia (an impoverished coal mining area in the Appalachian Mountains (from Pennsylvania to North Carolina))

Alleghenies; Allegheny Mountains (the western part of the Appalachian Mountains; extending from northern Pennsylvania to southwestern Virginia)

Blue Ridge; Blue Ridge Mountains (a range of the Appalachians extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia)

Catskill Mountains; Catskills (a range of the Appalachians to the west of the Hudson in southeastern New York; includes many popular resort areas)

Cumberland Mountains; Cumberland Plateau (the southwestern part of the Appalachians)

Great Smoky Mountains (part of the Appalachians between North Carolina and Tennessee)

Green Mountains (a range of the Appalachian Mountains that extends from south to north through Vermont)

Taconic Mountains (a range of the Appalachian Mountains along the eastern border of New York with Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont)

Holonyms ("Appalachian Mountains" is a part of...):

East; eastern United States (the region of the United States lying to the north of the Ohio River and to the east of the Mississippi River)

 Context examples 

"One surprising finding is that it may be more critical than previously thought in a lot of places, such as the Appalachian Mountains and Western Europe."

(Study reveals surprising role of dust in mountain ecosystems, National Science Foundation)