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highland
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A highland is an Irish musical form in duple meter , largely idiomatic of Donegal . Like the fling , it is related to the Scottish highland fling and the hornpipe , found throughout the British Isles . Like its Scottish cousin, a fling is played in cut ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English heohlond ; see high (adj.) + land (n.). Highlands "mountainous district of Scotland" first recorded early 15c.
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 855 Housing Units (2000): 369 Land area (2000): 1.130883 sq. miles (2.928973 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.130883 sq. miles (2.928973 sq. km) FIPS code: 34450 Located within: Wisconsin ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ highland dancing ▪ the highland city of Puno
Usage examples of highland.
The southwest corner of Anshan contains the Persian highlands, whose clan leader was Cyrus the Achaemenid, hereditary lord of Anshan.
Inca empire extended along the Pacific coast and Andean highlands of South America from the northern border of modern Ecuador, through the whole of Peru, and as far south as the Maule River in central Chile.
Boss had picked up a pointer and now tapped with it in the midst of Tawantinsuyu, near Cuzco, where the Andean highlands rose in a central topographic node.
The month brought such spring as came to the Andean highlands, mainly a foretaste of the seasonal rains that would begin next month in earnest.
Emilio De Bono stood at the window of his office and looked across the squalid roofs of the town of Asmara towards the great brooding massif of the Ethiopian highlands.
Frankincense comes from the Boswellia tree, which grows in the highlands of northeastern Somalia.
As the train gasped slowly up the grade and rolled bumpily at last along the fertile, neglected Syrian highland, all the Armenians on the train removed their hats and substituted the red tarboosh, preferring the headgear of a convert rather than be the target of every Bedouin with a rifle in his hand.
Most of the caddies at Highlands courses are also members of the clubs.
Elfin Highlands, and some to trade for the round raisin cheeses which had come downriver from Twombly Town.
These dwarfs, anxiously awaiting their cheeses, prepared honeycakes in huge quantities, some for themselves, some for the elves that lived above in the Elfin Highlands, and some to trade for the round raisin cheeses which had come downriver from Twombly Town.
Chatterjee A, B and C were a triad of simple craters just below Chladni, and while the smaller two were of minimal interest, Chatterjee A was the child of a meteor that had punched through the Imbrian basalts to as sweet a vein of aluminum ore as anything in the highlands.
Like the other Highland chm, the MaeLmh were a proud people, fierce in their independence.
I would rather be companion to a ninety-year-old crosspatch in the farthest corner of the Scottish Highlands.
Four more cutters were heading for the wharf, three packed with Highland Infantry to join others already formed up there, drums beating and bagpipes wailing impatiently.
Though accompanied, during his northern excursions, by friends whose socialities and conversation forbade deep thought, or even serious remark, it will be seen by those who read his lyrics with care, that his wreath is indebted for some of its fairest flowers to the Highlands.