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uplands

[uhp-luhnd, -land]

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.

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Uplands is always a great word to know.

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Origin:
1560–70; up- + land

Related forms

up·land·er, noun

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noun

a city in S California. 47,647.

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"This land is a little land; too much shut up within the narrow seas, as it seems, to have much space for swelling into hugeness: there are no great wastes overwhelming in their dreariness, no great solitudes of forests, no terrible untrodden mountain-walls: all is measured, mingled, varied, gliding easily one thing into another: little rivers, little plains, swelling, speedily- changing uplands, all beset with handsome orderly trees; little hills, little mountains, netted over with the walls of sheep- walks: all is little; yet not foolish and blank, but serious rather, and abundant of meaning for such as choose to seek it: it is neither prison nor palace, but a decent home."

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