Appalachian
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the Appalachian Mountains.
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of or relating to the region of Appalachia, its inhabitants, or their culture.
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Geology. of or relating to the orogeny and accompanying intrusion that occurred in eastern North America during the Pennsylvanian and Permian periods.
noun
Etymology
Origin of Appalachian
First recorded in 1670–80; from Spanish Apalchen, Apalachen, perhaps from Apalachee (an extinct Muskogean language) abalahci “other side of the river” or from Hitchiti (an extinct Muskogean language) apalwahči “dwelling on one side”; the Spanish transcription of the name of a Muskogean village near Tallahassee in the Florida panhandle, recorded on the expedition led by Pánfilo de Narváez (1478?–1528), later altered by the Spanish to Apalachee and applied to the Indian tribe, the surrounding area and the hinterland north to the southern end of the Appalachian Mountains
Example Sentences
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About 35mn people are impacted by the blizzard warning, and another 19mn are are under winter storm warnings, which covers the Central Appalachians to coastal Maine.
From BBC
Nearly 54 million people are in the path of the storm from the Central Appalachians to coastal Maine, facing either winter storm or blizzard warnings, according to the National Weather Service.
And he explained the common bonds that exist between Black Americans and Appalachians.
From Salon
He went on to graduate from Western Carolina University, and then earn a master’s degree at Appalachian State University.
National Fuel Gas owns roughly 1.2 million acres in the Appalachian Basin, with substantial mineral ownership overlying the Marcellus and Utica shales.
From Barron's
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