Lowland
['ləʊlənd] or ['lolənd]
Definition
(noun.) low level country.
(adj.) of relatively low or level country .
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Definition
(n.) Land which is low with respect to the neighboring country; a low or level country; -- opposed to highland.
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Examples
- On every continent, in proceeding from north to south, from lowland to upland, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- When this date approaches bands of natives set out from their primitive homes and go, in many instances, hundreds of miles into the forest lowlands. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The flames from funeral piles long ago kindled there had shone down upon the lowlands as these were shining now. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Lowlands of Holland, Marshes of Italy, Swamps of Florida, Drained. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The Carboniferous Rocks, the coal-measures, give us a vision of the first great expansion of life over the wet lowlands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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