UPLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does upland mean? 

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

1. elevated (e.g., mountainous) land

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

• UPLAND (adjective)
  The adjective UPLAND has 1 sense:

1. used of high or hilly country

  Familiarity information: UPLAND used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Elevated (e.g., mountainous) land

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

highland; upland

Hypernyms ("upland" is a kind of...):

elevation; natural elevation (a raised or elevated geological formation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "upland"):

down ((usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil)

plateau; tableland (a relatively flat highland)

Instance hyponyms:

Highlands; Highlands of Scotland (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))

• UPLAND (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used of high or hilly country

Synonyms:

highland; upland

Similar:

alpestrine; subalpine (growing at high altitudes)

alpine (living or growing above the timber line)

mountainous (containing many mountains)

Antonym:

lowland (of relatively low or level country)

 Context examples 

The lowest concentrations were shown in the tropical southern uplands.

(Simple animals could live in Martian brines, Wikinews)

The road from Crawley curves gently upwards to the upland heather-clad plateau which extends for many miles in every direction.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thence he passed to the huge and ferocious bird, the phororachus, and to the great elk which still roams upon this upland.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The woods about this point fall away to the left and the right, while the road curves upwards and the wind sweeps keenly over the swelling uplands.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The southern portion of the left inset above shows the cratered plateau uplands informally named Vega Terra.

(What’s Eating at Pluto?, NASA)

In the near distance, in contrast with the young-green of the tended grass, sunburnt hay-fields showed tan and gold; while beyond were the tawny hills and upland pastures.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Compositional data from the New Horizons spacecraft, shown in the right inset, indicate that the plateau uplands south of Piri Rupes are rich in methane ice (shown in false color as purple).

(What’s Eating at Pluto?, NASA)

From where they now stood they could look forward down a long vista of beech woods and jagged rock-strewn wilderness, all white with snow, to where the pass opened out upon the uplands beyond.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One could not walk the Kent coast without seeing the beacons heaped up to tell the country of the enemy’s landing, and if the sun were shining on the uplands near Boulogne, one might catch the flash of its gleam upon the bayonets of manoeuvring veterans.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Strange it was to see such a vast concourse of people, and then to look upon that broad, white, empty highway which wound away, bleak and deserted, until it narrowed itself to a bare streak against the distant uplands.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)