CUMBERLAND PLATEAU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cumberland Plateau mean? 

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

1. the southwestern part of the Appalachians

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUMBERLAND PLATEAU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The southwestern part of the Appalachians

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Cumberland Mountains; Cumberland Plateau

Instance hypernyms:

chain; chain of mountains; mountain chain; mountain range; range; range of mountains (a series of hills or mountains)

Meronyms (parts of "Cumberland Plateau"):

Cumberland Gap (a pass through the Cumberland Mountains between Virginia and Kentucky that early settlers used in order to move west)

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

Appalachian Mountains; Appalachians (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)