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See definition of upland on Dictionary.com
  • as ineminence
  • as inhill
  • as inmesa
  • as inplateau
  • as inridge
  • as inrise
  • as intable

synonyms for upland

  • prominence
  • altitude
  • elevation
  • height
  • highland
  • highness
  • hill
  • hillock
  • knoll
  • loftiness
  • peak
  • project
  • promontory
  • raise
  • ridge
  • rise
  • summit

antonyms for upland

MOST RELEVANT
  • base
  • bottom
  • decrease
  • depth
  • drop
  • lowness
  • nadir
  • flat
  • inferiority
  • unimportance
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        How to use upland in a sentence

        All the pieces were found in residential and ceremonial civic areas of varying size and status from city centers, foothills, upland areas and the valley around the former Maya city of El Pilar, on the present-day border of Guatemala and Belize.
        IN MAYA SOCIETY, CACAO USE WAS FOR EVERYONE, NOT JUST ROYALSRICHARD KEMENYSEPTEMBER 26, 2022SCIENCE NEWS
        That money would fund a medley of interventions, including installing stone along the shoreline to fight erosion and raising the upland ridges by 3 meters using sand from the Chesapeake Bay.
        CLIMATE CHANGE COULD MAKE VIRGINIA’S TANGIER ISLAND UNINHABITABLE BY 2051TRISHLA OSTWALDECEMBER 6, 2021SCIENCE NEWS
        The island’s sole town, Tangier, is located on three upland ridges that have largely been protected from coastal erosion.
        CLIMATE CHANGE COULD MAKE VIRGINIA’S TANGIER ISLAND UNINHABITABLE BY 2051TRISHLA OSTWALDECEMBER 6, 2021SCIENCE NEWS
        A good upland vest is essential, and most don’t make the cut for chukar hunting.
        HOW TO HUNT CHUKAR, THE TOUGHEST BIRD IN THE WESTWTAYLORDECEMBER 1, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINE
        Stacked boulders tower above upland bogs and northern hardwoods, with more than 50 trail miles traversing the area’s 17,776 acres.
        50 U.S. WILDERNESS AREAS, RANKEDERILEYJULY 26, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINE
        We followed the upland past the end of the Stone till we found a slope that didn't require wings for descent.
        RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
        All night the gale buffeted the high windows of the church, and howled over the upland and roared through the woodland.
        A THIN GHOST AND OTHERSM. R. (MONTAGUE RHODES) JAMES
        Among these trees the upland white oak is common, but is of rather diminutive size, and often hollow.
        EARLY WESTERN TRAVELS 1748-1846, VOLUME XVIVARIOUS
        They are going to the church, mother—I hear the marriage bell It booms along the upland—oh!
        THE BOOK OF HUMOROUS VERSEVARIOUS
        And now let us leave the upland, and descend to the sea-board; there is a sight for you upon the billows!
        LAVENGROGEORGE BORROW
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        OCTOBER 26, 1985
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        WORDS RELATED TO UPLAND

        • altitude
        • elevation
        • height
        • highland
        • highness
        • hill
        • hillock
        • knoll
        • loftiness
        • peak
        • project
        • prominence
        • promontory
        • raise
        • ridge
        • rise
        • summit
        • upland
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