highlands

See also: Highlands

English

Etymology

From high +‎ lands.

Noun

highlands pl (plural only)

1. A high area of land, lands higher than surrounding areas.
   • 2018 February 20, Adesola Akinleye, Narratives in Black British Dance: Embodied Practices, →ISBN, page 195:

     One of Ethiopia's most popular traditional dances, eskista, which is said to have originated from the lower highlands of Ethiopia's Amhara region, exemplifies the type of multi-functionality that Martin (1967) acknowledges as it is performed in many different settings of the Ethiopian community.

Derived terms

• highland (adj)
• highlander
• Highlands, Highlander

Related terms

• highland (n)

Translations

area of high land

• Bulgarian: възвишения (bg) m pl (vǎzvišenija)
• Esperanto: altaĵaro
• French: hautes terres f pl
• Galician: montaña (gl) f
• German: Hochland (de) n
• Hebrew: רמה (he) (ramah)
• Italian: acrocoro (it) m
• Khmer: ស្រុកលើ (srok lǝǝ)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: zozan (ku) f

• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: возвише́нија n pl (vozvišénija)
• Portuguese: terras altas
• Spanish: tierras altas f pl
• Swedish: högland (sv) n