highlands

See also: Highlands

English

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kewk-

Proto-Indo-European *kówk-o-s

Proto-Germanic *hauhaz

Proto-West Germanic *hauh

Old English hēah

Middle English heigh

English high

English lands

English highlands

From high + lands.

highlands pl (plural only)

A high area of land, lands higher than surrounding areas.
- (Can we date this quote?), “Liberia”, in Wetlands.org‎^[1], archived from the original on 28 July 2011, page 1:
  However, between Monrovia (6°20'N/10°46'W) and Buchanan (5°57'N/10°02'W) highlands approach to within 25 km of the coast. East of Buchanan the lowlands reach nearly 100 km inland, in the Cestos Valley, but narrow again to 30 km towards the eastern border.
- 2018 February 20, Adesola Akinleye, Narratives in Black British Dance: Embodied Practices, →ISBN, page 195:
  One of Ethiopia's most popular traditional dances, eskista, which is said to have originated from the lower highlands of Ethiopia's Amhara region, exemplifies the type of multi-functionality that Martin (1967) acknowledges as it is performed in many different settings of the Ethiopian community.

area of high land