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Answer for the clue "Skiing in Kansas? ", 8 letters:
highland

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Word definitions for highland in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Highland is a broad term for an elevated mountainous plateau. Highland , Highlands , or The Highlands , may also refer to:

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 3388 Housing Units (2000): 1143 Land area (2000): 27.624329 sq. miles (71.546680 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.014466 sq. miles (0.037468 sq. km) Total area (2000): 27.638795 sq. miles (71.584148 sq. km) FIPS code: 30775 Located within: ...

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

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Relating to #Noun. n. An area of land that is at elevation; mountainous land.

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.