Definition of piedmont Piedmont

/piˈdmɑˌnt/ - [peedmant] - Pied•mont

We found 8 definitions of piedmont from 5 different sources.

What does piedmont mean?

Noun Plural: piedmonts
piedmont - the region of northwestern Italy; includes the Po valley
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		italia, italian republic, italy a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD
piedmont - the plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains: parts of Virginia and North and South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama
piedmont - a gentle slope leading from the base of a mountain to a region of flat land

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piedmont (a.)
Noting the region of foothills near the base of a mountain chain.

piedmont
An Italian principality, which now forms the northwest part of the kingdom of Italy. In 1796 it was seized by the French, and parceled out into six departments, five being incorporated with France, and one with the kingdom of Italy, but after the fall of Napoleon, the house of Savoy recovered possession of it. Since 1860 the name Piedmont, as a provincial designation, has been disused; and in the new division of Italy into provinces, the boundaries of Piedmont as a distinct country have been disregarded.

Piedmont is a region in the northern part of Italy. The capital is Turin. Piedmont has 8 provinces within it.

In the north of Piedmont there is the country of Switzerland and the Italian region of Valle d'Aosta, in the east there are the regions of Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna, in the west there is France and in the south Liguria.