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lowland

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for lowland.

Editorial note

As was the Lowland Scots one, except in the second case the individual made the news.

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Quick take

An area which is considered particularly low or lower than surrounding areas.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of lowland gathered in one view.

noun

An area which is considered particularly low or lower than surrounding areas.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for lowland.

noun

An area which is considered particularly low or lower than surrounding areas.

Example sentences

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As was the Lowland Scots one, except in the second case the individual made the news.

2

It is why the Dutch get their English name from the German for German, Deutsch; and Nederland (Neder = Low) is German/Dutch for the Lowland Deutsch.

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Some years ago lowland Tajikistan (a country where the economy is weak outside of remittances from gastarbeiter in Russia) saw a sudden wave of building petrol stations one after the other to the point of absurdity.

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It has successfully adapted to British lowland conditions.

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Sure man, ask the Keas, I am sure they like their new name and wouldn't prefer to live in lowland if human were to disappear in NZ.

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The west-most areas of the Mongol raids were around Carpathian Mountains up to Pannonian Basin and were they went through, they basically cleaned the densely-populated lowland of the most of its inhabitants.

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Eighty years they drained the coastal lowland swamps making central Israel broadly livable - prior it was a morass eg Roman generals writing about the difficulty of transporting soldiers through the region, not catching malaria, etc.

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For mountain gorillas, females disperse from their natal troops more than males.[58][61] Mountain gorillas and western lowland gorillas also commonly transfer to second new groups.[58] Mature males also tend to leave their groups and establish their own troops by attracting emigrating females.

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California eats the beef that California produces and much more, while the insidious almond robber-barons direct California's water into their international money-printing export machine for their own profit, depriving the rest of California of a large chunk of their lowland biosphere, destroying the land with subsidence and generally being extractive rather than productive, without benefit to the population.

Quote examples

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That is of course also why the Netherlands is called the Nederlande in “Dutch” which is a reference to the lowland Germans.

2

During the 16th-18th centuries, "The Plantations" there was a lot of migration of Loyalists from the Scottish Lowland.

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This becomes far clearer when you understand that the Germans refer to themselves as die Deutsche, which is where the “Dutch” get their English name, i.e., Nederland Deutsch, which means… self-referential… the lowland German people.

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Very bloody minded: give the indefensible lowland big cities to the enemy (where per the book I linked to previously, the citizens practice "Total Resistance" using among other things those decommissioned from military service older rifles), and retreat to the mountainous country and make the enemy pay for every foot they gain, with little more than bullets and rifle grenades if need be.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use lowland in a sentence?

As was the Lowland Scots one, except in the second case the individual made the news.

What does lowland mean?

An area which is considered particularly low or lower than surrounding areas.

What part of speech is lowland?

lowland is commonly used as noun.