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up⋅land

  [uhp-luhnd, -land]
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–noun
1. land elevated above other land.
2. the higher ground of a region or district; an elevated region.
3. land or an area of land lying above the level where water flows or where flooding occurs.
–adjective
4. of or pertaining to uplands or elevated regions.
Origin:
1560–70; up- + land

Related forms:
up⋅land⋅er, noun
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Up⋅land

  [uhp-luhnd]
–noun
a city in S California. 47,647.
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up·land   (ŭp'lənd, -lānd')   
n.  

  1. Land or an area of land of high elevation, especially when level.

  2. Land in the interior of a country.

adj.  Of, relating to, or located in an upland.
Up·land   (ŭp'lənd)   
A city of southern California east of Los Angeles. Population: 73,400.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Upland

city, Delaware county, southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., on the Delaware River (across from Bridgeport, New Jersey), within the Philadelphia metropolitan area. One of the oldest communities in the state, the Chester area was granted by the Swedish crown to a bodyguard of Johan Printz, the governor of New Sweden, in 1644. After 1655 Dutch settlers joined the Swedes in establishing the town of Upland. William Markham, the deputy governor to William Penn, located his seat of government in Upland when he arrived in 1681 to establish the English colony of Pennsylvania. Upon Penn's arrival in 1682 the province's first assembly was convened there. Penn probably renamed the settlement Chester for a Quaker centre in Cheshire, England. From this early period, date the John Morton (c. 1650) and the Caleb Pusey (1683) houses.

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