cumberland plateau

1. 1.

   the southwestern part of the Appalachians

   SynonymsCumberland Mountains

   Broaderrange

   Part ofAppalachians

   PartsCumberland Gap

Questions about cumberland plateau

What does cumberland plateau mean?

cumberland plateau means "the southwestern part of the Appalachians".

What is another word for cumberland plateau?

Close synonyms include Cumberland 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 cumberland plateau a common word?

cumberland plateau 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.