HIGHLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Highlands mean? 

• HIGHLANDS (noun)
  The noun HIGHLANDS has 1 sense:

1. a mountainous region of northern Scotland famous for its rugged beauty; known for the style of dress (the kilt and tartan) and the clan system (now in disuse)

  Familiarity information: HIGHLANDS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGHLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mountainous region of northern Scotland famous for its rugged beauty; known for the style of dress (the kilt and tartan) and the clan system (now in disuse)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Highlands; Highlands of Scotland

Instance hypernyms:

highland; upland (elevated (e.g., mountainous) land)

Holonyms ("Highlands" is a part of...):

Scotland (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts)

Derivation:

Highlander (a native of the Highlands of Scotland)

Highlander (a soldier in a Scottish regiment from the Highlands)

 Context examples 

With this resolution I traversed the northern highlands and fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys as the scene of my labours.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Previous research has found similar surface features in the Moon's highlands, but wrinkle ridges have never been seen in basins before now.

(Study Finds New Wrinkles on Earth's Moon, NASA)

Wilson's team concentrated on those equatorial areas, particularly with a 600-mile (1,000-kilometer) stretch of loose, easily erodible material between the northern lowlands and southern highlands along the Medusae Fossae Formation.

(A Fresh Look at Older Data Yields a Surprise Near the Martian Equator, NASA)

I packed up my chemical instruments and the materials I had collected, resolving to finish my labours in some obscure nook in the northern highlands of Scotland.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)