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PIEDMONT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The region of northwestern Italy; includes the Po valley
Synonyms:
Piedmont; Piemonte
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Italian region (Italy is divided into 20 regions for administrative purposes)
Meronyms (parts of "Piedmont"):
Torino; Turin (capital city of the Piemonte region of northwestern Italy)
Holonyms ("Piedmont" is a part of...):
Italia; Italian Republic; Italy (a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains: parts of Virginia and North and South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Holonyms ("Piedmont" is a part of...):
South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A gentle slope leading from the base of a mountain to a region of flat land
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("piedmont" is a kind of...):
incline; side; slope (an elevated geological formation)
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