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high country
noun
- a mountainous area below the timberline; a forested mountain area.
high country
noun
- the high countrysheep pastures in the foothills of the Southern Alps, New Zealand
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Other Words From
- high-coun·try [hahy, -kuhn-tree], adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of high country1
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Example Sentences
Now snow blew to twenty-foot drifts in high country, and still the law had no luck.
Stay: Book your stay at the High Sierra Camps, a series of chalets and hiking trails in the high country of the park.
A normal river—in fact, all the greater streams of the earth—originates in high country, generally in a region of mountains.
We worked down slowly from the high country, takin' it easy an' gatherin' in spoils as we went.
The faint roll of thunder came down a wind, damp and cool, sucked from the high country.
After the heat and dust and brown of the lower hills, this high country was inexpressibly grateful.
Empty levels lay opposite, narrowing up into the high country.
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