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Known for the style of dress (the kilt and tartan) and the clan system (now in disuse)
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highlands
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Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 7089 Housing Units (2000): 2812 Land area (2000): 6.174560 sq. miles (15.992037 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.399415 sq. miles (1.034480 sq. km) Total area (2000): 6.573975 sq. miles (17.026517 sq. km) FIPS code: 33836 Located within: ...
Wiktionary
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n. An area of high land.
Wikipedia
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" Highlands " is a song by Bob Dylan , released on his 30th studio album Time Out of Mind in 1997. It is Dylan's longest known studio recording at sixteen minutes and thirty-one seconds. The song's title is borrowed from the poem "My Heart's in the Highlands" ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE central ▪ Coffee was introduced into the central highlands in the 1840s, and quickly became the most important cash crop. ▪ In parts of the Southern Province and central highlands they were little used, and human ...
Usage examples of highlands.
Most of the caddies at Highlands courses are also members of the clubs.
The reader will learn a lot about links golf in Dornoch, and gain plenty of knowledge about the intoxicating Scottish Highlands and their haunting history.
As for the people in Dornoch and the Highlands of whom Lome writes so affectionately, everybody gets the initial impression that they are somewhat reserved.
I have traveled to these Highlands and on to Dornoch from my home in Toronto, a sprawling city where four million people jostle for space.
That was a pivotal question in the Highlands, and it was becoming a pivotal question for me.
Dornoch is not a private club as we use the term in North America, though it does have members, seventeen hundred of them drawn from the Highlands, other parts of Scotland, the rest of the United Kingdom, and from around the world.
He works at The Carnegie Club at Skibo Castle as the resident Highlands host and general wildman, always ready with a story or a joke or a quip or an insult or a compliment.
Here in the Highlands it's impossible not to be conscious of the way the land is used and not used.
It seems that every town or village in the Highlands holds a gala week, when kids and adults come out to play.
I feel small in the Highlands landscape, but it's an agreeable sensation that has something to do with being in a place where man and landscape seem in proper relative perspective.
From the top of Ben Bhraggie, at the base of the Mannie, the infamous monument to the first Duke of Sutherland, you can see the villages of Brora, Golspie, and Dornoch, where some families forced from the hills of the Highlands were sent to live.
Untold thousands of Highlands Scots chose or were coerced to leave their homeland.
We're not familiar with the Highlands, and enjoy losing ourselves in the environment.
Tom tells me and the course manager, Jock, a ruddy-faced man from the Black Isle in the Highlands whose full name is John Macgregor McDonald Mackay.
As on all single-track roads in the Highlands, passing places are provided -half-moon-shaped areas scooped out of the side to allow a driver to slip in and allow an oncoming car to continue.