highland

See also: Highland

English

Etymology

From Middle English hy laund, holond (“highland, upland”), from Old English hēahland (“highland”), from Proto-West Germanic *hauhaland, *hauhalandī; equivalent to high +‎ land. Cognate with Scots hieland (“highland”), Dutch hoogland (“highland”), German Hochland (“highland”), Danish højland (“highland”), Swedish högland (“highland”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪ.lənd/, /ˈhaɪ.lɪnd/

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• Hyphenation: high‧land
• Homophones: island (in aitch-dropping accents), Hyland
• Rhymes: -aɪlənd

Noun

highland (plural highlands)

1. A high area; land that is higher than surrounding areas.

Hypernyms

• land

Derived terms

• Addington Highlands
• Atlantic Highlands
• Cameron Highlands
• Central Highlands
• Grey Highlands
• Highland County
• highland dance
• highlander
• Highland fling
• Highland Papua
• Highland Park
• Highland Peak
• Highland Range
• highland tinamou
• Lanark Highlands
• Southern Highlands
• St Minver Highlands

 

Related terms

• highlands

Translations

elevated land

Armenian: բարձրադիր (hy) (barjradir) Belarusian: суго́р'е n (suhórʺje), узвы́шша n (uzvýšša) Bikol Central: kabubuldan Catalan: terres altes f pl Chinese: Mandarin: 高地 (zh) (gāodì) Czech: vysočina (cs) f Dutch: hoogland (nl) n Esperanto: altejo French: hauts-plateaux m pl, hautes terres f pl Galician: terra alta f, montaña (gl) f, montes m pl Georgian: მაღლობი (maɣlobi) German: Hochland (de) n Gothic: 𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌴𐌹 f (bairgahei) Hindi: पठार (hi) m (paṭhār) Hungarian: felföld (hu) Ingrian: ylänkö Irish: ardchríoch f Italian: altopiano (it) m Japanese: 高地 (ja) (こうち, kōchi) Khmer: ខ្ពង់រាប (km) (khpŭəngriəp) Korean: 고지 (ko) (goji) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: zozan (ku) pl Lao: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: aukštuma (lt) m Macedonian: пла́нински крај m (pláninski kraj), го́рски крај m (górski kraj), возвише́ние n (vozvišénie), возви́шеност f (vozvíšenost), висо́чина f (visóčina) Malay: tanah tinggi (ms) Oromo: baddaa Plautdietsch: Huachlaunt n Polish: wyżyna (pl) f Portuguese: terra alta f Russian: наго́рье (ru) n (nagórʹje), плоского́рье (ru) n (ploskogórʹje), го́рная страна́ f (górnaja straná), возвы́шенность (ru) f (vozvýšennostʹ) Scottish Gaelic: àrd-thìr m Serbo-Croatian: gorje (sh) n Spanish: tierras altas f pl, sierra (es) f, zona montañosa f Swedish: högland (sv) n Tagalog: kataasan, minangon Thai: please add this translation if you can Tibetan: མཐོ་སྒང (mtho sgang) Ukrainian: нагі́р'я n (nahírʺja), узви́шшя n (uzvýššja) Vietnamese: sơn nguyên Welsh: ucheldir (cy) m