α. 1600s Apalataean, 1600s Apalatean, 1600s Apalatheean, 1600s Appalatean.
β. 1600s Apalachaean, 1600s– Apalachian, 1700s Apalachean, 1700s Apalatchian, 1700s– Appalachian.
单词 | appalachian |
释义 | Appalachianadj.n.α. 1600s Apalataean, 1600s Apalatean, 1600s Apalatheean, 1600s Appalatean. β. 1600s Apalachaean, 1600s– Apalachian, 1700s Apalachean, 1700s Apalatchian, 1700s– Appalachian. A. adj. 1. Designating or forming part of an extensive system of mountain ranges in the eastern United States, stretching from the northern border with Canada to Georgia. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [adjective] > range > spec Alpine?a1475 Pyrene?a1475 Riphaean1555 Pyrenean?1556 Pyrenee1590 hercynian1598 Alpic1611 Appalachian1672 Carpathian1673 Rhipaean1703 Alleghenian1740 Altaic1762 Altaian1780 Balkan1785 Uralian1801 Lepontine1802 Altai1824 Dinaric1833 Andean1845 Alpigene1847 Lepontian1857 Uralic1861 Himalayan1866 Cordilleran1891 Andine1900 Armorican1906 Variscan1906 1672 W. Talbot tr. J. Lederer Discov. in Three Marches from Virginia 2 The Apalatæan mountains..are barren rocks. 1682 T. Amy Carolina 34 It's supposed..that the Apalatean Mountains..yields ore both of gold and silver. 1743 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. p. v The Apalatchian Mountains have their southern Beginning near the Bay of Mexico. 1819 W. Irving Rip Van Winkle in Sketch Bk. i. 59 They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family. 1853 W. G. Simms Sword & Distaff ix. 49 The mountain rangers from that section of the Apalachian slopes. 1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. iv. vi. 724 The Appalachian chain varies much in directions southwest of New York. 1917 C. J. Sharp in O. D. Campbell & C. J. Sharp Eng. Folk Songs S. Appalachians p. iii The Southern Appalachian Mountains of North America. 1951 W. Faulkner Requiem for Nun iii. i. 246 The long looping skeins of electric lines bringing electric power from the Appalachian mountains. 1985 Washington Post 12 Dec. (Maryland Weekly section) 1 Every August.., Jim Fazenbaker used to head for Western Maryland's rugged Appalachian foothills. 2. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of these mountains, this region as a whole, or its inhabitants. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [adjective] > Appalachian Mountains Appalachian1878 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [adjective] > parts of southern1774 salt river1828 Appalachian1878 down home1901 Ozarkian1906 1763 tr. A. Le Page du Pratz Hist. Louisiana II. i. 7 The Apalachean beans [Fr. Les Féves Apalaches] are so called because we received them from a nation of natives of that name. 1860 Historical Mag. (U.S.) Feb. 40/1 (heading) Specimen of the Appalachian language. 1878 R. J. Hinton Hand-bk. Arizona 54 A series of limestones, shales, sandstones, and conglomerates totally unlike that which has been established in the New York and Appalachian province. 1904 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 167 150 The folding in the rocks of the area is of three types: minute crinkling, small unsymmetrical wavy folds, and broad Appalachian ones in which the adjustment appears to have taken place along the bedding. 1906 V. A. Lewis Rep. Dept. Archives & Hist., W. Virginia 31 The Potomac Area, the South Appalachian Area, and the Ohio Valley Area. 1941 Amer. Speech Oct. 180 Ned for bacon or salt pork, set his hoss, a gambling stake, are variously Appalachian. 1964 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 24 Apr. (1970) 121 We arrived at the Tom Fletcher home, chosen to illustrate the human toll the declining mining industry has taken on these Appalachian families. 1974 Florida FL Reporter 13 34/3 So opponents of the status quo in the USA could similarly ‘authorize’ promoting Black or Appalachian English as the single national norm. 1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 581 Appalachian meat pie and beer-batter shrimp are other dinner items. 1985 N.Y. Times 21 Dec. i. 52/4 A lovely rendition of the Appalachian folk song ‘I Wonder as I Wander’. 3. Appalachian revolution n. [compare revolution n. 7c] the formation of the Appalachian Mountains in eastern North America. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > tectonization or diastrophism > [noun] > orogenesis > specific Appalachian revolution1856 Laramide1972 Acadian1985 1856 J. D. Dana Amer. Geol. Hist. 16 The deposits, with small exceptions, were a single unbroken record, until this Appalachian revolution. 1915 L. V. Pirsson & C. Schuchert Text-bk. Geol. ii. xli. 749 During the Appalachian Revolution much of eastern North America was again thrown into pronounced folds. B. n. 1. plural. The Appalachian mountains. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [noun] > range > other spec. Mountains of the Moon1597 Carnic Alps1601 the Ghats1603 Pyreneans1768 Rocky Mountains1798 Balkans1802 Carnian Alps1802 Rockies1827 Carpathiana1832 Appalachians1834 Adirondack1838 keel1857 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 178/2 The rivers which rise in the Appalachians, flow in long valleys between the chains. 1917 O. D. Campbell & C. J. Sharp (title) English folk songs from the Southern Appalachians. 1954 Lefler & Newsome North Carolina ii. 19 The third physical region of North Carolina embraces the mountains of the Southern Appalachians. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia I. 1016/1 The highest altitudes in the Appalachians are in the northern division. 2. A native or inhabitant of the Appalachian area. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > parts of New Englander1637 bayman1641 New English1647 Novangle1650 Novanglian1752 Yankee1765 cracker1766 Yank?1778 bushwhacker1809 tuckahoe1816 southerner1817 Yengees1819 muskrat1823 blue belly1827 half horse and half alligator1828 Southron1828 northerner1831 westerner1835 Northman1836 Easterner1838 Far-Wester1843 southwesterner1845 western1846 sand-hiller1848 Vineyarder1851 mountain boomer1859 Far Westerner1862 blue-nosed Yankee1866 Appalachian1888 sloper1892 Ozarkian1893 rebel1895 reb1897 Middle Westerner1899 hillbilly1900 Midwesterner1916 Ozarker1920 Geechee1926 Middle American1944 upstater1944 Mid-American1959 1888 S. Wallace Land of Pueblos 277 The Pimo Indians..are dark brown, differing in complexion from the Appalachians east of the Rocky Mountains and the olive hues of the California tribes. 1973 Black Panther 8 Sept. 4/3 Most Black people in Appalachia live in worse conditions than White Appalachians. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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