CUMBERLAND GAP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cumberland Gap mean? 

• CUMBERLAND GAP (noun)
  The noun CUMBERLAND GAP has 1 sense:

1. a pass through the Cumberland Mountains between Virginia and Kentucky that early settlers used in order to move west

  Familiarity information: CUMBERLAND GAP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUMBERLAND GAP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A pass through the Cumberland Mountains between Virginia and Kentucky that early settlers used in order to move west

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

mountain pass; notch; pass (the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks)

Holonyms ("Cumberland Gap" is a part of...):

Cumberland Mountains; Cumberland Plateau (the southwestern part of the Appalachians)