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

1 sense of cumberland gap

Sense 1
Cumberland Gap -- (a pass through the Cumberland Mountains between Virginia and Kentucky that early settlers used in order to move west)
       INSTANCE OF=> pass, mountain pass, notch -- (the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks; "we got through the pass before it started to snow")