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/ˈəplənd/ Listen

noun

Upland n.

1.

High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the like.

2.

The country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns. (Obs.)

adjective

Upland adj.

1.

Of or pertaining to uplands; being on upland; high in situation; as, upland inhabitants; upland pasturage. "Sometimes, with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite."

2.

Pertaining to the country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns; rustic; rude; unpolished. (Obs.W2) " The race of upland giants."

Upland moccasin. (Zool.) See Moccasin.

Upland sandpiper, or Upland plover (Zool.), a large American sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) much valued as a game bird. Unlike most sandpipers, it frequents fields and uplands. Called also Bartramian sandpiper, Bartram's tattler, field plover, grass plover, highland plover, hillbird, humility, prairie plover, prairie pigeon, prairie snipe, papabote, quaily, and uplander.

Upland sumach (Bot.), a North American shrub of the genus Rhus (Rhus glabra), used in tanning and dyeing.

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... earthen pitchers, and I began to look about me for some inn where these visions might be realized and my burning thirst nobly quenched (as such a thirst deserved to be). On I went, through this beautiful land of Kent, past tree and hedge and smiling meadow, by hill and dale and sloping upland, while ever the sun grew hotter, the winding road the dustier, and my mighty thirst ...

— The Broad Highway • Jeffery Farnol

... that flows through a country of upland farms will show you many a pretty bit of genre painting. Here is the laundry-pool at the foot of the kitchen garden, and the tubs are set upon a few planks close to the water, and the farmer's daughters, with bare arms and gowns tucked up, ...

— Little Rivers - A Book Of Essays In Profitable Idleness • Henry van Dyke

... Harvest! how fair on each plain It waves in its golden luxuriance of grain! The wealth of a nation is spread on the ground, And the year with its joyful abundance is crowned. The barley is whitening on upland and lea, And the oat-locks are drooping, all graceful to see; Like the long yellow hair of a beautiful maid, When it flows on the ...

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