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high country en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Terrain that is at a relatively high elevation — generally, higher than foothills but not above the timberline — consisting of mountainous areas or elevated expanses of plain.
   • Near-synonyms: highlands, upcountry, upland; plateau, tableland, mesa
   • While Lookout Mountain was the loftiest summit, some of the other ridges rose almost as high. . . . September had now come and the winds were growing crisper in the high country. 1915, Joseph A. Altsheler, chapter 13, in The Rock of Chickamauga:
   • We had topped the high country, too, and had started down the other side of the mountains that ran out on the promontory. 1907, Stewart Edward White, chapter 13, in Arizona Nights:
   • I grew up in Washington State, and have hiked the high country since I was a boy scout in the '60s. 2001 August 6, Curt Eidem, “Letters: The War over the West”, in Time:

Relateds

north country

Synonyms

tableland · upland · plateau · mesa · upcountry · highlands