Highland
['haɪlənd]
Definition
(n.) Elevated or mountainous land; (often in the pl.) an elevated region or country; as, the Highlands of Scotland.
Editor: Moore
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Mountainous region.
Editor: Stanton
Examples
- The Union opened the market of England to the Highland cattle. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Listen to the Highland tongue! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And is that a Scotch reel you are dancing, you Highland fairy? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The Highland militia, when it served under its own chieftains, had some advantage of the same kind. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- With this resolution I traversed the northern highlands, and fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys as the scene labours. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- A hospitality nearly of the same kind was exercised not many years ago in many different parts of the Highlands of Scotland. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- You might have come straight from chambers in the Temple,' instead of having been two months in the Highlands! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- After leaving Memphis, there are no such highlands coming to the water's edge on the east shore until Vicksburg is reached. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We will go to the Highlands. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And should we not be happy, Caroline, in the Highlands? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Three shillings a-week, the same price, very nearly still continues to be paid in some parts of the Highlands and Western islands. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is not uncommon, I have been frequently told, in the Highlands of Scotland, for a mother who has born twenty children not to have two alive. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In countries which have little commerce, on the contrary, such as Wales, or the Highlands of Scotland, they are very common. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is impossible there should be such a trade as even that of a nailer in the remote and inland parts of the highlands of Scotland. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A crown, half a crown, a sheep, a lamb, was some years ago, in the Highlands of Scotland, a common rent for lands which maintained a family. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Editor: Xenia