"Appalachia" meaning in English

See Appalachia in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ˌæ.pəˈlæ.tʃə/ [Southern, US], /ˌæ.pəˈleɪ.(t)ʃə/ [Canada, Northern, US]
Rhymes: -ætʃə, -eɪʃə Etymology: Back-formation from Appalachian. Etymology templates: {{back-form|en}} Back-formation, {{m|en|Appalachian}} Appalachian Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Appalachia
  1. A region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains, that stretches from southwestern Pennsylvania to northern Alabama, usually excluding New York State and New England. Categories (place): Places in the United States, Regions of the United States Translations (a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains): Appalachia (Afrikaans), أَبَالَاش (ʔabālāš) (Arabic), অ্যাপালেশিয়া (êpaleśiẏa) (Bengali), অ্যাপালেচিয়া (êpaleciẏa) (Bengali), অ্যাপাল্যাচা (êpallaca) (Bengali), 阿巴拉契亞 [Hokkien] (Chinese), 阿巴拉契亚 (a-pa-la-khòe-a) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 阿巴拉契亞 (Chinese Cantonese), 阿巴拉契亚 (aa³ baa¹ laai¹ kai³ aa³) (Chinese Cantonese), 阿巴拉契亞 (Chinese Mandarin), 阿巴拉契亚 (ābālāqìyà) (Chinese Mandarin), Appalachia (Dutch), Appalachia (Finnish), Appalaches (French), 阿巴拉契亞 (Hakka Chinese), 阿巴拉契亚 (â pâ lâ khie á) (Hakka Chinese), Appalachia (Indonesian), アパラチア (aparachia) (Japanese), Appalachia (Latin), آپالاش (Apalaş) (Ottoman Turkish), آپالاش (âpâlâš) (Persian), آپالاشیا (âpâlâšyâ) (Persian), آپالاچیا (âpâlâčyâ) (Persian), Appalachia [feminine] (Portuguese), Appalachia (Scots), Appalachia (Spanish), แอปพาเลเชีย (aepphalechia) (Thai), Apalaş (Turkish), ایپلاچا (āypalācā) (Urdu), Appalachia (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-Appalachia-en-name-Hto9CQuU Categories (other): English back-formations, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English back-formations: 91 9 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 96 4 Disambiguation of 'a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains': 95 5
  2. A town in Wise County, Virginia. Categories (place): Places in Virginia, USA, Places in the United States, Towns in Virginia, USA, Towns in the United States
    Sense id: en-Appalachia-en-name-7TBRlZvV

Download JSON data for Appalachia meaning in English (9.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en"
      },
      "expansion": "Back-formation",
      "name": "back-form"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Appalachian"
      },
      "expansion": "Appalachian",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from Appalachian.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Appalachia",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in the United States",
          "orig": "en:Places in the United States",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Regions of the United States",
          "orig": "en:Regions of the United States",
          "parents": [
            "Regions",
            "Places",
            "Political subdivisions",
            "Names",
            "Polities",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "91 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English back-formations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "96 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021, Brandon Taylor, “Filthy Animals”, in Filthy Animals, Daunt Books Originals, page 130",
          "text": "A thick forest of pine trees encircles their subdivision, and beyond that, in the distance, is the shadow of the mountain, one of those low hills at the cusp of Appalachia in northern Alabama.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains, that stretches from southwestern Pennsylvania to northern Alabama, usually excluding New York State and New England."
      ],
      "id": "en-Appalachia-en-name-Hto9CQuU",
      "links": [
        [
          "United States",
          "United States#English"
        ],
        [
          "New York State",
          "New York State"
        ],
        [
          "New England",
          "New England"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "af",
          "lang": "Afrikaans",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "Appalachia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ʔabālāš",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "أَبَالَاش"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "bn",
          "lang": "Bengali",
          "roman": "êpaleśiẏa",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "অ্যাপালেশিয়া"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "bn",
          "lang": "Bengali",
          "roman": "êpaleciẏa",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "অ্যাপালেচিয়া"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "bn",
          "lang": "Bengali",
          "roman": "êpallaca",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "অ্যাপাল্যাচা"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "阿巴拉契亞"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "roman": "aa³ baa¹ laai¹ kai³ aa³",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "阿巴拉契亚"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "hak",
          "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "阿巴拉契亞"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "hak",
          "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
          "roman": "â pâ lâ khie á",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "阿巴拉契亚"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "nan-hbl",
          "lang": "Chinese",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "阿巴拉契亞"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "nan-hbl",
          "lang": "Chinese",
          "roman": "a-pa-la-khòe-a",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "阿巴拉契亚"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "阿巴拉契亞"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "ābālāqìyà",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "阿巴拉契亚"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "Appalachia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "Appalachia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "Appalaches"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "Appalachia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "aparachia",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "アパラチア"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "Appalachia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "Apalaş",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "آپالاش"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "âpâlâš",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "آپالاش"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "âpâlâšyâ",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "آپالاشیا"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "âpâlâčyâ",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "آپالاچیا"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Appalachia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "sco",
          "lang": "Scots",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "Appalachia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "Appalachia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "aepphalechia",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "แอปพาเลเชีย"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "Apalaş"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "roman": "āypalācā",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "ایپلاچا"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
          "word": "Appalachia"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in Virginia, USA",
          "orig": "en:Places in Virginia, USA",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in the United States",
          "orig": "en:Places in the United States",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Towns in Virginia, USA",
          "orig": "en:Towns in Virginia, USA",
          "parents": [
            "Towns",
            "Places",
            "Polities",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Towns in the United States",
          "orig": "en:Towns in the United States",
          "parents": [
            "Towns",
            "Places",
            "Polities",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A town in Wise County, Virginia."
      ],
      "id": "en-Appalachia-en-name-7TBRlZvV",
      "links": [
        [
          "Wise",
          "Wise#English"
        ],
        [
          "Virginia",
          "Virginia#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌæ.pəˈlæ.tʃə/",
      "tags": [
        "Southern",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ætʃə"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌæ.pəˈleɪ.(t)ʃə/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "Northern",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪʃə"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Appalachia"
  ],
  "word": "Appalachia"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 4-syllable words",
    "English back-formations",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Rhymes:English/eɪʃə",
    "Rhymes:English/ætʃə",
    "Rhymes:English/ætʃə/4 syllables"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en"
      },
      "expansion": "Back-formation",
      "name": "back-form"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Appalachian"
      },
      "expansion": "Appalachian",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from Appalachian.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Appalachia",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Places in the United States",
        "en:Regions of the United States"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021, Brandon Taylor, “Filthy Animals”, in Filthy Animals, Daunt Books Originals, page 130",
          "text": "A thick forest of pine trees encircles their subdivision, and beyond that, in the distance, is the shadow of the mountain, one of those low hills at the cusp of Appalachia in northern Alabama.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains, that stretches from southwestern Pennsylvania to northern Alabama, usually excluding New York State and New England."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "United States",
          "United States#English"
        ],
        [
          "New York State",
          "New York State"
        ],
        [
          "New England",
          "New England"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Places in Virginia, USA",
        "en:Places in the United States",
        "en:Towns in Virginia, USA",
        "en:Towns in the United States"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A town in Wise County, Virginia."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Wise",
          "Wise#English"
        ],
        [
          "Virginia",
          "Virginia#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌæ.pəˈlæ.tʃə/",
      "tags": [
        "Southern",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ætʃə"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌæ.pəˈleɪ.(t)ʃə/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "Northern",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪʃə"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "Appalachia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʔabālāš",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "أَبَالَاش"
    },
    {
      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "êpaleśiẏa",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "অ্যাপালেশিয়া"
    },
    {
      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "êpaleciẏa",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "অ্যাপালেচিয়া"
    },
    {
      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "êpallaca",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "অ্যাপাল্যাচা"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "阿巴拉契亞"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "aa³ baa¹ laai¹ kai³ aa³",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "阿巴拉契亚"
    },
    {
      "code": "hak",
      "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "阿巴拉契亞"
    },
    {
      "code": "hak",
      "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
      "roman": "â pâ lâ khie á",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "阿巴拉契亚"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "阿巴拉契亞"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "a-pa-la-khòe-a",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "阿巴拉契亚"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "阿巴拉契亞"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "ābālāqìyà",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "阿巴拉契亚"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "Appalachia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "Appalachia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "Appalaches"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "Appalachia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "aparachia",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "アパラチア"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "Appalachia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "Apalaş",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "آپالاش"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "âpâlâš",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "آپالاش"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "âpâlâšyâ",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "آپالاشیا"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "âpâlâčyâ",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "آپالاچیا"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Appalachia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sco",
      "lang": "Scots",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "Appalachia"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "Appalachia"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "aepphalechia",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "แอปพาเลเชีย"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "Apalaş"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "āypalācā",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "ایپلاچا"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a region in the eastern United States, covering a part of the Appalachian Mountains",
      "word": "Appalachia"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Appalachia"
  ],
  "word": "Appalachia"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.