TACONIC MOUNTAINS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Taconic Mountains mean? 

• TACONIC MOUNTAINS (noun)
  The noun TACONIC MOUNTAINS has 1 sense:

1. a range of the Appalachian Mountains along the eastern border of New York with Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont

  Familiarity information: TACONIC MOUNTAINS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TACONIC MOUNTAINS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A range of the Appalachian Mountains along the eastern border of New York with Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Taconic Mountains" is a part of...):

Connecticut; Constitution State; CT; Ct.; Nutmeg State (a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies)

Bay State; MA; Mass.; Massachusetts; Old Colony (a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies)

Empire State; N.Y.; New York; New York State; NY (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)

Green Mountain State; Vermont; VT; Vt. (a state in New England)

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)