Crossword clues for appalachian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appalachian \Ap`pa*la"chi*an\, a. Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains.
Note: The name Appalachian was given to the mountains by the
Spaniards under De Soto, who derived it from the
neighboring Indians.
--Am. Cyc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in reference to the North American mountain range, c.1600, Mountaynes Apalatsi; written apalachen by Spanish explorers and originally in reference only to the southern end of the range. Originally the name of the Apalachee, a Muskogean people of northwestern Florida, perhaps from Apalachee abalahci "other side of the river" or Hitchiti (Muskogean) apalwahči "dwelling on one side." Spelling shifted under influence of adjectives in -ian.
Wiktionary
a. Referring to the region of Appalachia or its characteristics. n. A person from Appalachia.
Wikipedia
Appalachian may refer to:
- the Appalachian Mountains
- the people of Appalachia and their culture
- Appalachian English, the variety of English native to Central and Southern Appalachia
- Appalachian State University in Boone, NC
Usage examples of "appalachian".
Many of those newspapers that failed to report the whole story then seized upon the horror at the Appalachian School of Law to editorialize once again against handguns.
Still, even I found the coverage of the shootout at the Appalachian School of Law absolutely astounding.
All of which brings us back to the way the media handled the story about the shootout at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia, and what seems to be the only plausible reason so much of the media left out the salient fact that the students who finally subdued the gunman also had guns.
But the Appalachian Law School shootout raised groupthink to a whole new category of duplicity.
And not only small, riveting stories like the one about the rescuers at the Appalachian School of Law, but larger stories of potentially great significance to society at large.
A sign announced that this was no ordinary footpath but the celebrated Appalachian Trail.
The precise length of the Appalachian Trail is a matter of interesting uncertainty.
The Appalachian Trail Conference, the governing body, in 1993 put the trail length at exactly 2,146.
Now it is important to establish right away that the possibility of a serious bear attack on the Appalachian Trail is remote.
I imagined him bouncing around on the Appalachian Trail like some wind-up toy that had fallen on its back.
The Appalachian Trail was formally completed on August 14, 1937, with the clearing of a two-mile stretch of woods in a remote part of Maine.
It fell short of the actual southern end of the Appalachian Mountain chain by 150 miles and of the northern end by nearer 700.
Perhaps the hardest part about hiking the Appalachian Trail is getting on to it, nowhere more than at its ends.
I stepped portentously on to the path, a fragment of the original Appalachian Trail from the days when it passed here en route from Mount Oglethorpe to Springer.
There was a bronze plaque screwed into a boulder announcing the start of the Appalachian Trail, and nearby on a post was a wooden box containing a Bic pen on a length of string and a standard spiral notebook, its pages curled from the damp air.