What is a piedmont? A basin?

Answer 1

A piedmont is a foothill, and "piedmont" has become a generic designation for foothill regions in geography.

Places and things known as Piedmont include:

* Piedmont (Italy), a region of northwestern Italy
o The historical Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, ruled by the House of Savoy and instrumental in Italian Unification
* Piedmont (United States), a region of eastern United States
* Colorado Piedmont, a region of Colorado
* Piedmont Airlines, a regional airline operating under the name US Airways Express
* Piedmont College, a liberal arts college in northeast Georgia
* Piedmont-Hawthorne, the company that formerly owned Piedmont Airlines and is now part of Landmark Aviation
* The Piedmont, an Amtrak passenger train part of the Carolinian and Piedmont
* Piedmont fingerstyle, a style of blues guitar playing
* Piedmontese, a language spoken in Piedmont, Italy
* Piedmont League, defunct minor league baseball organization
* Several towns and geographies in the United States:
o Piedmont, Alabama
o Piedmont, California, near Oakland
o Piedmont, Missouri
o Piedmont, Oklahoma
o Piedmont, South Carolina
o Piedmont, South Dakota
o Piedmont, Virginia
o Piedmont, West Virginia
o Piedmont, Wyoming
* Other geographies:
o Piedmont Road in Milpitas, California
o Piedmont Creek in Milpitas, California
* Ice piedmonts in Antarctica:
o Bertrand Ice Piedmont
o Bongrain Ice Piedmont
o Cruchley Ice Piedmont
o Cugnot Ice Piedmont
o Davis Ice Piedmont
o Dee Ice Piedmont
o Eady Ice Piedmont
o Ford Ice Piedmont
o Forster Ice Piedmont
o Fuchs Ice Piedmont
o Gavin Ice Piedmont
o Gawn Ice Piedmont
o Geelan Ice Piedmont
o Getman Ice Piedmont
o Giovinco Ice Piedmont
o Hamilton Ice Piedmont
o Handel Ice Piedmont
o Heirtzler Ice Piedmont
o Hughes Ice Piedmont
o Kooperatsiya Ice Piedmont
o Marr Ice Piedmont
o Maumee Ice Piedmont
o Mercator Ice Piedmont
o Mozart Ice Piedmont
o Roberts Ice Piedmont
o Sopot Ice Piedmont
o Stefan Ice Piedmont
o Stuhlinger Ice Piedmont
o Tarnovo Ice Piedmont
o Wagner Ice Piedmont
o Warren Ice Piedmont
o Widmark Ice Piedmont
o Wormald Ice Piedmont
o Wright Ice Piedmont

Answer 2

Piedmont literally means, "at the foot of a mountain" - For example, the Piedmont district of Italy is located at the base of the mountains. A basin is the area which drains into a river. Streams run downhill, and through valleys which comprise the basin.

Answer 3

piedmont, any area near the foot of a mountain, particularly the plateau (the Piedmont) extending from New York to Alabama E of the Appalachian Mts. and W of the Atlantic coastal plain. in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina it is E of the Blue Ridge Mts. the plateau is cut by numerous small rivers, whose fall line is along the eastern edge of the plateau. “Piedmont” is French for “foothills.”

Answer 4

not even close to being a basin; it's an upland area at the base of the mountains

Answer 5

An area of land formed or lying at the foot of a mountain or mountain range.