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APPALACHIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An impoverished coal mining area in the Appalachian Mountains (from Pennsylvania to North Carolina)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Holonyms ("Appalachia" is a part of...):
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)
Derivation:
Appalachian (a native or inhabitant of Appalachia)
Appalachian (in or relating to Appalachia)
