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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
uplands
noun
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▪ For this they grow large amounts of fodder crops on fields in the main valleys or on the lower margins of the uplands.
▪ If the uplands and woodlands were apparently settled by the twelfth century, other colonisation probably merely filled in the gaps.
▪ In the region as seen from the small plane, in my case the mountains and woody uplands of the Northeast?
▪ It is likely that the report will provide added ammunition to environmentalists who have for long opposed the blanket afforestation of uplands.
▪ Small peasant holdings predominated in the uplands.
▪ The farmers are also helped by a Government subsidy for the number of livestock they keep on the uplands.
▪ The majority of holdings in the uplands of Great Britain are farmed by owner-occupiers with an ageing population of farmers.
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uplands

n. (plural of upland English)

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Uplands (electoral ward)

Uplands is name of an electoral ward (and a suburb) in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, UK.

The electoral ward consists of some or all of the following areas: Uplands, Brynmill, St. Helen's, Cwmgwyn, Ffynone, and The Lons. It is in the parliamentary constituency of Swansea West. The ward is bounded by Sketty to the west, Townhill to the north, Castle to the east, and Swansea Bay to the south.

For electoral purposes Uplands is divided into the polling districts of: WU Uplands North, WV1 Glanmor, WV2 Glanmor, WW, WX St. Helens, WY 2647 and WZ Uplands South.

Uplands returns four councillors to the local City and County of Swansea Council.

Usage examples of "uplands".

Planir that we do not want his magic in the uplands, we do not need it nor will we tolerate it.

There has been no need for war between us, not even when my father was subjugating the uplands once and for all.

In the uplands, where the Nonkind roam and attack, there is need of weapons such as these.

Five minutes later Channa was facing her mother, who was dressed in a soft rose-coloured tunic, darker hose and soft suede ankle boots - typical uplands leisure wear.

For the gullies are deep, and the uplands are steep, And mud will of purls be the token, And the tough stringy-bark, that invites us to lark, With impunity may not be broken.

The Royalist saddlefast squarely, And where the bright uplands stretch fairly, Behind, beyond pistol-shot barely, The Roundheaded rank.

And beyond the sweet uplands all golden with flower, It looms in the distance, the grey convent tower.

Where the mossy uplands rise and dip On the edge of the leafy dell, With a lurch, like the lurch of a sinking ship, The black horse toppled and fell.

Those meadows of moderate moisture could be colorful, too, with many flowering plants intermixed with the grassy ground cover of wild oats, foxtail barley, and, particularly on slopes and uplands, little bluestems.

The hills of the uplands, that were graduating into higher foothills as they approached the mountains to the west, were crossed with the deeply cut narrow valleys of rivers they had to cross.

There were no clouds that Jondalar could see, and he wondered what was causing the vibrant uniform color that reflected off the craggy pinnacles to the north, the rugged uplands across the river, and tinged the rippling water with the hue of blood.

No longer were the rivers joining on the north coming from the uplands and foothills of the familiar mountains they were leaving behind.

Despite his relative abstinence at dinner, Ari found himself light-headed - probably, he decided, some sort of interactien between the Tree Frog Export Dark and the Uplands Reserve.

Paleolithic Fuzzies living in the woods, or the agricultural, house-building Fuzzies that are still in the Uplands of North Beta?

As far as Marius could gather, these inland valley bottoms and the occasional wider uplands he rode across lay at about five and a half thousand feetnot quite high enough to cause dizziness and headache, but quite high enough to make staying in the saddle hard work.