English
Noun
high country (uncountable )
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 .
1907 , Stewart Edward White , chapter 13, in Arizona Nights :We had topped the high country , too, and had started down the other side of the mountains that ran out on the promontory.
1915 , Joseph A. Altsheler , chapter 13, in The Rock of Chickamauga :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 .
2001 Aug. 6, Curt Eidem, "Letters: The War over the West ," Time :
I grew up in Washington State, and have hiked the high country since I was a boy scout in the '60s.
Usage notes
Used especially to refer to certain Western regions of the U.S. and Canada.
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