Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A native or inhabitant of a lowland.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An inhabitant of the Lowlands, especially of Scotland: opposed to Highlander.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A native or inhabitant of the Lowlands, especially of the Lowlands of Scotland, as distinguished from
Highlander .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who lives in the
lowlands .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a native of the Lowlands of Scotland
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Examples
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Scotland is a deeply divided society: Catholic versus Protestant, highlander against lowlander, urban versus rural, Gaelic versus Anglophone, rectitude versus licence, welfare dependents versus a strong entrepreneurial tradition.
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Then, what was a moderate uphill hike for Dan proved to be a desperate, brutal slog for me and my out of shape, lowlander lungs.
Archive 2005-04-01 Slimbolala 2005
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Miri, named after a flower that grows among the linder, worries that she, too, is as useless as a lowlander.
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Miri, named after a flower that grows among the linder, worries that she, too, is as useless as a lowlander.
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"The lowlander has inherited the hills, the Tartan is a shroud."
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Then, what was a moderate uphill hike for Dan proved to be a desperate, brutal slog for me and my out of shape, lowlander lungs.
Take a Hike Slimbolala 2005
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For myself, though but a lowlander, having picked up a few words of the language, I presumed to mingle in their mirth, and joined in the choruses with as much glee as any of the company.
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A visiting lowlander with a vision was quite the diversion in an isolated mountain village.
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He excels at taking in large amounts of oxygen and uses it efficiently, much more than the average lowlander.
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He excels at taking in large amounts of oxygen and uses it efficiently, much more than the average lowlander.
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