LAURENTIAN HIGHLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Laurentian Highlands mean? 

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

1. a large plateau that occupies more than 40% of the land area of Canada; it extends from the Great Lakes northward to the Arctic Ocean

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAURENTIAN HIGHLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large plateau that occupies more than 40% of the land area of Canada; it extends from the Great Lakes northward to the Arctic Ocean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Canadian Shield; Laurentian Highlands; Laurentian Plateau

Instance hypernyms:

plateau; tableland (a relatively flat highland)

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

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)