high country
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.29 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Terrain that is at a relatively high elevation — generally, higher than foothills but not above the timberline — consisting of mountainous areas or elevated expanses of plain.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: highlands, upcountry, upland; plateau, tableland, mesa"
- "We had topped the high country, too, and had started down the other side of the mountains that ran out on the promontory."
- "While Lookout Mountain was the loftiest summit, some of the other ridges rose almost as high. . . . September had now come and the winds were growing crisper in the high country."
- "I grew up in Washington State, and have hiked the high country since I was a boy scout in the '60s."