Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun appalachian_mountains

1 sense of appalachian mountains

Sense 1
Appalachians, Appalachian Mountains -- (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)
       INSTANCE OF=> range, mountain range, range of mountains, chain, mountain chain, chain of mountains -- (a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range")