Upland Synonyms and Antonyms

ŭplənd, -lănd
Elevated (e.g., mountainous) land
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. highland
  2. hill
  3. high-ground
  4. moor
  5. peak
  6. mountain
  7. crest
  8. summit
  9. ridge
  10. barrow
  11. hogback
  12. elevation
  13. height
  14. eminence
  15. altitude
  16. plateau
  17. mesa
  18. hilltop
  19. mountain-dwelling
Antonyms:
  1. lowland
Used of high or hilly country
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. highland
  2. hill-dwelling
Antonyms:
  1. lowland
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Upland Sentence Examples

  • The upland flora is the more diversified.

  • Extensive areas in the midland and upland districts are devoted to the raising of stock.

  • This was especially the case on the side of Lycia, where the upland district of Milyas was sometimes included in Pisidia, at other times assigned to Lycia.

  • The whole of Pisidia is an elevated region of table-lands or upland valleys in the midst of the ranges of Mt Taurus which descends abruptly on the side of Pamphylia.

  • Local prosperity was greatly enhanced during the period 18 751905 by the improvement of communications, which enabled the grain, fruit and wine of the Guadiana valley, on the north, and of the upland known as the Tierra de Barros, on the south, to be readily exported by the Merida-Seville railway.

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