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lowland

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lowland , Lowlands , or The Lowlands may refer to:

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. low level country [ant: highland ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lowland \Low"land\, n. Land which is low with respect to the neighboring country; a low or level country; -- opposed to highland . The Lowlands , Belgium and Holland; the Netherlands; also, the southern part of Scotland.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, originally with reference to Scotland, from low (adj.) + land (n.). Related: Lowlander .

Usage examples of lowland.

And in those times it was well to have the strong arms and sharp blades of any fighters available, for the Lowlands to the north were all aboil and the border was all aflame from end to end.

He remembered Aby living, Aby on Moon, blithe and beautiful, coming down the road in the safe lowlands.

Asia, the drowning of many productive lowland farming areas by rising sea levels, and the pollution of aquifers and the acidification or drying of freshwater lakes.

Cliffs, looking down at the muddy red lowland below, the yellowish expanse of the Occoquan River beyond, finally the bushily overgrown, rocky start of Fairfax County beyond that.

August noon, when he had drunk ginger beer on the settle by the door, and amid the sleepy clucking of hens and the bleating of sheep had watched the waters of Gryne and Stark beginning their allied journey to the lowlands.

The largest couple of species, the so-called great honkers, birds of the easily accessible eastern lowlands, went extinct first.

They were different from the one he killed latermore like sea gullsand he got the idea that beyond the hills, in the direction they were flying, there would be either more wooded lowlands or an arm of the sea.

Low happened to arrive in a spell of bad weather, when nothing was visible about the lodge but a few roods of sodden lowland, and a curve of the yellow tumbling little river, and beyond a mirky outline of shouldering hills blurred by the ever-falling rain.

By the time the sky paled to the east, revealing mists in the lowlands, she was grainy-eyed and sluggish.

For town here in ta curset Lowlands, ta sight has peen almost cone from her, my son.

These terebinthine stores were the property of the plantation lords of the lowlands of North Carolina, who correspond to the pinchbeck barons of the rice districts of South Carolina.

Meanwhile, guided by veteran rievers of Clans Grant, Armstrong, Kerr, and Hay, mobs of Balderites were religiously butchering both across the length and width of the Scottish Lowlands and pressing over the border into England.

Here the winds made merry, roiled by the meeting of lowlands and high crags, and it was sheer pleasure to fly.

The Guardians had already recruited the last of the wandering Romanys who lived in the foothills that separated the Caledonian Lowlands from the High Country to the North.

The bandar yoi inoie did not mourn the destruction of the lowland forests.