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
• Central Highlands
• Grey Highlands
• Highland County
• highland dance
• highlander
• Highland fling
• Highland Park
• 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
• 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