appalachians

1. 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

   SynonymsAppalachian Mountains

   Broaderrange

   Part ofEast

   PartsAppalachiaAllegheniesBlue Ridge MountainsCatskillsCumberland MountainsGreat Smoky Mountains

Other forms of appalachians

plural

appalachianses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about appalachians

What does appalachians mean?

appalachians means "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".

How many syllables are in appalachians?

appalachians has 4 syllables: ap-pa-la-chians. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ˌæpəˈleɪtʃənz/.

What is another word for appalachians?

Close synonyms include Appalachian Mountains. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is appalachians a common word?

appalachians is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.