Crossword clues for upland
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Upland \Up"land\, n.
Upland \Up"land\, a.
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Of or pertaining to uplands; being on upland; high in situation; as, upland inhabitants; upland pasturage.
Sometimes, with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite.
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Pertaining to the country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns; rustic; rude; unpolished. [Obs.W2] `` The race of upland giants.''
--Chapman.Upland moccasin. (Zo["o]l.) See Moccasin.
Upland sandpiper, or Upland plover (Zo["o]l.), a large American sandpiper ( Bartramia longicauda) much valued as a game bird. Unlike most sandpipers, it frequents fields and uplands. Called also Bartramian sandpiper, Bartram's tattler, field plover, grass plover, highland plover, hillbird, humility, prairie plover, prairie pigeon, prairie snipe, papabote, quaily, and uplander.
Upland sumach (Bot.), a North American shrub of the genus Rhus ( Rhus glabra), used in tanning and dyeing.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Of, relating to, or situated in the uplands. n. The area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation; often hilly, but not generally mountainous (compare highlands).
WordNet
adj. used of high or hilly country [syn: highland(a)] [ant: lowland]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 88
Land area (2000): 0.412573 sq. miles (1.068558 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.412573 sq. miles (1.068558 sq. km)
FIPS code: 49880
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 40.318371 N, 98.901922 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68981
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Headwords:
Upland
Housing Units (2000): 25467
Land area (2000): 15.118013 sq. miles (39.155472 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.032921 sq. miles (0.085265 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 15.150934 sq. miles (39.240737 sq. km)
FIPS code: 81344
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 34.113259 N, 117.658386 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 91786
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Headwords:
Upland
Housing Units (2000): 824
Land area (2000): 3.932304 sq. miles (10.184620 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.008688 sq. miles (0.022501 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.940992 sq. miles (10.207121 sq. km)
FIPS code: 77966
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 40.467146 N, 85.500120 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 46989
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Headwords:
Upland
Housing Units (2000): 1216
Land area (2000): 0.670653 sq. miles (1.736983 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.670653 sq. miles (1.736983 sq. km)
FIPS code: 78712
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 39.856762 N, 75.379429 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Upland
Wikipedia
- redirect Upland, California
The Upland, which is Low German for something like Oberland ("highland") or auf dem Land ("in the country"), is the northeastern part of the Hochsauerland and belongs the German state of Hesse, unlike the remainder of the Hochsauerland which lies in Westphalia. The Upland falls within the district of Waldeck-Frankenberg, in North Hesse and corresponds to the territory of the municipality of Willingen.
Upland or Uplands may refer to:
- Hill, an area of higher land, generally
- Highland, an area of higher land divided into low and high points
- Upland and lowland, conditional descriptions of a plain based on elevation above sea level
In Canada:
- CFB Uplands, a former Canadian Forces Base located in Ottawa, Ontario, most land was given to Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport
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Uplands, Greater Victoria, a Vancouver Island neighbourhood in the northeast Oak Bay, which is adjacent to Victoria, British Columbia
- Uplands Park, an undeveloped natural reserve in the Uplands neighbourhood
- Uplands Ski Centre, a tiny, one-lift ski area in Thornhill, Ontario, just north of Toronto
In Germany:
- Upland (Hesse), lies mostly in the northwestern Rothaar Mountains, with parts in the East Sauerland foothills
In Norway:
- Uplands, Norway, an ancient name for the agricultural lands and forests to the north of Oslo in Norway
In South Africa:
- Uplands College, an Anglican, independent high school near Mpumalanga, South Africa
In Sweden:
- Uppland, a historical province on the eastern coast of Sweden, just north of Stockholm
- Uplands nation, a student society at Uppsala University, Sweden
In the United States:
- Upland South, the northern part of the Southern United States, in contrast to the Deep South
- Upland, California, in San Bernardino County
- Upland, Monterey County, California, a former settlement located on the Southern Pacific Railroad between San Lucas and San Ardo
- Upland, Indiana, a town in Jefferson Township, Grant County, Indiana, United States, population 3,845 (2010)
- Indiana Uplands, a geographical region in south-central Indiana
- Upland, Kansas, a rural unincorporated community in Dickinson County, Kansas, United States
- Upland, Nebraska, a village in Franklin County, Nebraska, United States, population 143 (2010)
- Upland, Pennsylvania, a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States, population 3,239 (2010)
In the United Kingdom:
- Uplands, Swansea, a suburb and community of Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
- Uplands (electoral ward), an electoral ward in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
- Uplands Community College, a secondary school in Wadhurst, East Sussex, England, pupils are 11 to 18
- Upland Brewing Company, a brewery in Bloomington, Indiana, second largest brewery in Indiana
- Upland, the title of the final track on Edgar Froese's Aqua album, recorded using the artificial or Dummy head recording system
Usage examples of "upland".
Each of the different cultural groups such as coho, steelhead and sockeye have different times and styles in which they run to spawn in the upland streams, but each of their cultures show a similarity of adaptation to the earth.
Rick assumed they were traveling over an upland plain like the one where they had found the ceratopsid herds.
The clachan, through which he presently passed, was sodden, shabby and tumble-down, like a city slum transported to a sour upland.
After they left Eger, there was something more picturesque and less thrifty in the farming among the low hills which they gradually mounted to uplands, where they tasted a mountain quality in the thin pure air.
To the left sat Fata Nor, and to the right stretched two roads cutting through wooded uplands that met at the base of the hill.
It was bordered on each side by a line of orange trees, which, although they had only been planted ten years, had in the lovely climate of the uplands below Mt Kenia, the base of which is about 5,000 feet above the coastline level, already grown to imposing proportions, and were positively laden with golden fruit.
She poised utterly beautiful, but hueless as the snow, save for faint blue shadows along the curves of her and eyes like upland lakes.
Emerging under different suns, whether in the pleasant uplands of Kenya or Uganda, the steep gorges of Inyanga, or the rolling plains of Rhodesia, and growing over many centuries of pioneering migration and settlement, mingling with more primitive peoples, solving a whole wide range of contrasting problems, these early civilizations asserted once again a dominant African theme of unity in diversity, continuity in isolation.
Villiers and his young wife took their accustomed ride through shady lanes and copses, and through parks, where, though the magnificent features of nature were wanting, the eye was delighted by a various prospect of wood and lawny upland.
The forest glades, the ferny dells, and lawny uplands, the cultivated and cheerful country spread around the silver pathway of ancient Thames, all earth, air, and wave, took up one choral voice, inspired by memory, instinct with plaintive regret.
More wonderful than any romance it seemed, if we two, who had wandered over the peaceful uplands and oak woods of Dibblestowe Leys, hardly more than boy and girl, should now meet once more again in the far, strange, gold town of Yatala.
Aghdon and struck off across the uplands, leaving the largest of the ironoaks behind them and entering a forest of hickory, liquidambar, and witaec.
They left Aghdon and struck off across the uplands, leaving the largest of the ironoaks behind them and entering a forest of hickory, liquidambar, and witaec.
The green flanks of the uplands, all feathered with bamboo interspersed with the dark, glinting green of breadfruit and the sudden Bengal fire of Flame of the Forest, gave way to the lower forests of ebony, mahogany, mahoe and logwood.
For the air waxed darker about them and always darker, until the great peaks that stood round Ravary were hidden, and all the green land of Zimiamvia, with its plains and winding waters and hills and uplands and enchanted woods, hidden and lost in an evil twilight.