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highland

adjective as in mountainous

noun as in eminence

noun as in mesa

noun as in plateau

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noun as in rise

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While autumn is technically still the rainy season in this part of the world, the showers never last long, you can experience the country’s rural highlands at their least trafficked, and hotel rates are lower, too.

The passengers loading their bags into the minibus leaving Ankazobe, a small town in the highlands, were grateful for the morning coolness.

The hues weren’t dyed into the cloth by their makers, women of Mayan ethnicity who live in Guatemala’s impoverished, tumultuous highlands.

Before long, the Baron, assisted by “Count Bunker,” must confront not only the spectral Wraith of the Tulliwuddles but also the double temptation of a romantic highland beauty and an alluring American heiress.

James Monroe lived at Highland, a plantation adjacent to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello until accumulated debts forced him to sell in 1825.

You will find winding pasture for sheep and highland cattle.

Highland Park knows tacos and just being in this neighborhood makes me happy.

Justin, a 4-year-old West Highland terrier from Long Island, was having his face hair-sprayed into the shape of a carnation.

The funeral was scheduled for Tuesday at a Highland Park synagogue, and Peters was among those expected to speak.

Next weekend, an additional excerpt will be published about organizing a Sunday lunch and how to present traditional Highland tea.

Highland gentlemen of every degree are mostly fond of Gillespie; while operatives from the Lowlands generally prefer plain Scotch.

Now, Highland regiments had fought in India for many a year before the Mutiny, and the kilt was no new thing in native eyes.

Of the Highland regiment nearly half were either killed or desperately wounded.

A Highland sergeant looks sorrowfully on the dying warrior, while two lions sleep at his feet.

Further south the coasts close in abruptly, and the straits are like a long Highland loch.

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On this page you'll find 185 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to highland, such as: alpine, big, colossal, gigantic, huge, and mammoth.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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