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Highlands
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1 Highlands
A mountainous region of northern Scotland famous for its rugged beauty; known for the style of dress (the kilt and tartan) and the clan system (now in disuse).
synoniem: Highlands of Scotland.
Roget 206:
height,
altitude,
elevation;
eminence,
pitch;
loftiness
etc.
adj.;
sublimity.
tallness
etc.
adj.;
stature,
procerity†;
prominence
etc.
250.
colossus
etc.
(size)
192;
giant,
grenadier,
giraffe,
camelopard.
mount,
mountain;
hill alto,
butte [U.S.],
monticle†,
fell,
knap†;
cape;
headland,
foreland†;
promontory;
ridge,
hog's back,
dune;
rising ground,
vantage ground;
down;
moor,
moorland;
Alp;
uplands,
highlands;
heights
etc.
(summit)
210;
knob,
loma†,
pena [U.S.],
picacho†,
tump†;
knoll,
hummock,
hillock,
barrow,
mound,
mole;
steeps,
bluff,
cliff,
craig†,
tor†,
peak,
pike,
clough†;
escarpment,
edge,
ledge,
brae;
dizzy height.
tower,
pillar,
column,
obelisk,
monument,
steeple,
spire,
minaret,
campanile,
turret,
dome,
cupola;
skyscraper.
pole,
pikestaff,
maypole,
flagstaff;
top mast,
topgallant mast.
ceiling
etc.
(covering)
223.
high water;
high tide,
flood tide,
spring tide.
altimetry
etc.
(angel)
244†;
batophobia†.
satellite,
spy-in-the-sky.
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