Highland

Word HIGHLAND
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Hyphenation high land highland
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Definitions and meanings of "Highland"

What do we mean by highland?

Elevated land. noun

A mountainous or hilly section of a country. noun

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a highland. adjective

An abrupt elevation of land; a high promontory or plateau: as, a jutting highland. noun

Plural An elevated region broken into hills and mountains: often used as a proper name: as, the Highlands of Scotland; the Hudson Highlands; the highlands of Abyssinia. noun

Pertaining or belonging to high lands or to mountainous regions, especially (with a capital) the Highlands of Scotland: as, highland scenery; highland vegetation.

Elevated or mountainous land; (often in the pl.) an elevated region or country. noun

A dance peculiar to the Scottish Highlanders; a sort of hornpipe. noun

Of, located in, or characteristic of high or hilly country. Contrasted to lowland. adjective

An area of land that is at elevation; mountainous land. noun

Relating to highlands. adjective

Elevated (e.g., mountainous) land noun

Used of high or hilly country adjective

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The word "highland" in example sentences

Hudson and Connecticut rivers, from the highland, which is a continuation of the Kittatinney Ridge down to the Sound. ❋ Unknown (1853)

So great an inconvenience lessens their value very much, and makes highland, that is just tolerable, of greater advantage to the owner. ❋ Unknown (1841)

The Mahiccon, or Mahattan, who occupied Staten island, York island, (which from its being the principal seat of their residence was formerly called Mahatton) Long island and that part of New-York and Connecticut which lies between Hudson and Connecticut rivers, from the highland, which is a continuation of the Kittatinney ridge down to the Sound. ❋ Unknown (1826)

I say that the first lesson to be learned from this construction is that it was not done on the plains amid the farmlands, that it was done on the highland which is more or less equidistant from the center. ❋ Unknown (1977)

Tarrant, another charming "highland" village, and the road, sloping down the entire distance, struck me as one of the best to be on I had travelled in Hampshire, running along a narrow green valley, with oak and birch and bramble and thorn in their late autumn colours growing on the slopes on either hand. ❋ Unknown (1881)

The green and fertile region which is thus interposed between the 'highland' and 'lowland' deserts, [3] participates, curiously enough, in both characters. ❋ Georges Perrot (1873)

To write the word "highland," the pen has to make twenty-two strokes. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

American army; while the Hessian columns, stretching across a chain of the "highland," attempted to turn Gen. Greene's flank, and storm the advanced redoubt. ❋ George W. Williams (1870)

I thought that if the commissioners themselves, and the king of Holland with them, had spent a few days here, with their packs upon their backs, looking for that "highland," they would have had an interesting time, and perhaps it would have modified their views of the question somewhat. ❋ Unknown (1858)

The green and fertile region, which is thus interposed between the "highland" and the "lowland" deserts, participates, curiously enough, in both characters. ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)

It could at least have some back-up dancing and maybe some kind of highland jig. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'd love a bigger native breed ideally, such as highland or welsh cob (had both before and don't think you can beat a native!) however I'm fairly open minded as long as it is 14. 2hh and upwards and I can have a lot of fun with and do a bit of everything.

Rooftop snipers fired on marching activists, killing one in the highland city of Taiz and wounding eight in the port of Hodeida. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Many places in the central highland have very mild climates and may satisfy your desire to live in mountainous terrain while on or near the coast can be hotter than blazes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Morelia also claims to have the best climate though any given day could be subjectively better one place or another but in general Mexico's central highland has a very mild climate that is difficult to equal anywhere NOB. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Roy´s Xalapa is a fine and sophisticated city; the state´s capital and a university town with many fine restaurants and the state has endless attractions from Pico Orizaba to Lake Catemaco to The Tuxtlas and on and on and it is the home of fabulous cuisine and very good coffee and memorable music and mosquito infested coastal swamps adjacent to or near to cool mountainous highland wonderlands. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This states that if you behave badly at football matches and voice pejorative sentiments about religion you will spend three more years in the pokey than if you had indulged in such obscene behaviour at… oh, I don't know, the rugby or the highland games or, ahem, a Burns supper. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Also known as east African highland bananas, the green matooke fruits are for cooking only – ideally steamed on an open fire. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Prices of locally-produced indigenous food, such as quinoa, are also at a record highs: some highland communities have taken to eating rice and pasta instead of their traditional – and more nutritious – crops. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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