CATSKILLS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Catskills mean? 

• CATSKILLS (noun)
  The noun CATSKILLS has 1 sense:

1. a range of the Appalachians to the west of the Hudson in southeastern New York; includes many popular resort areas

  Familiarity information: CATSKILLS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATSKILLS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A range of the Appalachians to the west of the Hudson in southeastern New York; includes many popular resort areas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Catskill Mountains; Catskills

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Catskills"):

borscht belt; borscht circuit; borsht belt; borsht circuit ((informal) a resort area in the Catskill Mountains of New York that was patronized primarily by Jewish guests)

Holonyms ("Catskills" is a part of...):

Empire State; N.Y.; New York; New York State; NY (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)

Appalachian Mountains; Appalachians (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)