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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
highlands
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 power was employed instead.
▪ In the 1840s, when coffee plantations were established on a large scale, it expanded into the central highlands.
▪ Forest loss is also caused by migratory slash-and-burn agriculture, especially by minority peoples of the central highlands.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the Andean highlands
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An important minority of the population lives in far flung, sparsely populated areas such as the highlands and islands.
▪ 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 power was employed instead.
▪ The mare basins have dark, rather smooth floors that lie well below the altitude of the highlands.
▪ The maria and small plains in the highlands can readily be seen to postdate the craters on their borders.
▪ The scene was reminiscent of the lunar highlands.
▪ There were no tractors or radios in the Hmong highlands until the 1950s.
Wiktionary
highlands

n. An area of high land.

Gazetteer
Highlands, NJ -- U.S. borough in New Jersey
Population (2000): 5097
Housing Units (2000): 2820
Land area (2000): 0.761973 sq. miles (1.973501 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.560581 sq. miles (1.451897 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.322554 sq. miles (3.425398 sq. km)
FIPS code: 31500
Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 40.402308 N, 73.987982 W
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Highlands, NJ
Highlands
Highlands-Baywood Park, CA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in California
Population (2000): 4210
Housing Units (2000): 1548
Land area (2000): 1.799078 sq. miles (4.659591 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.799078 sq. miles (4.659591 sq. km)
FIPS code: 33633
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 37.524893 N, 122.343299 W
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Highlands-Baywood Park, CA
Highlands-Baywood Park
Highlands, CA
Highlands
Highlands, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000): 909
Housing Units (2000): 1713
Land area (2000): 6.059275 sq. miles (15.693449 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.122721 sq. miles (0.317846 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.181996 sq. miles (16.011295 sq. km)
FIPS code: 31360
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.054129 N, 83.202351 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 28741
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Headwords:
Highlands, NC
Highlands
Highlands, TX -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Texas
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: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 29.816803 N, 95.059362 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 77562
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Highlands, TX
Highlands
Highlands -- U.S. County in Florida
Population (2000): 87366
Housing Units (2000): 48846
Land area (2000): 1028.269146 sq. miles (2663.204750 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 78.010180 sq. miles (202.045430 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1106.279326 sq. miles (2865.250180 sq. km)
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 27.439711 N, 81.428524 W
Headwords:
Highlands
Highlands, FL
Highlands County
Highlands County, FL
Wikipedia
Highlands (song)

"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" by Scottish poet Robert Burns. In the song's lyrics, Dylan makes references to musician Neil Young and author Erica Jong.

Highlands (album)

Highlands is the ninth album by the Christian rock band White Heart and the band's last album with Star Song Records.

  • All songs written by Billy Smiley and Mark Gersmehl, except where noted.
Highlands (TV series)

Highlands is a 6-part documentary series produced by STV Productions (then known as "SMG Productions") and broadcast on STV in Northern and Central Scotland and The History Channel (UK), presented by Taggart actor John Michie.

Highlands focused on the Highland Clearances of the late 18th & early 19th centuries and the political & religious events that led to the forced displacements and widespread evictions which diluted the culture of area and led to mass emigration to the Lowlands, the coast and abroad.

Locations featured in the series included Culloden, Glenfinnan, Urquhart Castle, Strathcarron and Durness. The Earl of Cromartie and author/historian Jim Hunter were amongst the featured local highlanders and historians featured.

Since its original broadcast, the series has since been aired on History (UK) and released on DVD.

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.