highland

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: High=land

CIDE DICTIONARY

highland, n. 

 Elevated or mountainous land; (often in the pl.) an elevated region or country; as, the Highlands of Scotland.  [1913 Webster]

Highland fling, a dance peculiar to the Scottish Highlanders; a sort of hornpipe.

highland, adj. 

 of, located in, or characteristic of high or hilly country. Contrasted to lowland.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

highland, n. & adj.
--n. (usu. in pl.)
1 an area of high land.
2 (the Highlands) the mountainous part of Scotland.
--adj. of or in a highland or the Highlands.

Idiom

Highland cattle
1 cattle of a shaggy-haired breed with long curved widely-spaced horns.
2 this breed. Highland dress the kilt etc. Highland fling see FLING n. 3.

Derivative

highlander n. (also Highlander). Highlandman n. (pl. -men).

Etymology

OE heahlond promontory (as HIGH, LAND)

ROGET THESAURUS

highland

Land

N land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma, continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta, tongue of land, neck of land, isthmus, oasis, promontory, highland, coast, shore, scar, strand, beach, playa, bank, lea, seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach, ironbound coast, loom of the land, derelict, innings, alluvium, alluvion, ancon, riverbank, river bank, levee, soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot, rock, crag, acres, real estate, landsman, earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian, alluvial, terrene, landed, predial, territorial, geophilous, ripicolous, ashore, on shore, on land.