Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An inland or upland region of a country.
- adjective Of, located in, or coming from the upcountry.
- adverb In, to, or toward the upcountry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Toward the interior; away from the seaboard.
- noun The interior of the country.
- Being or living away from the seaboard; interior: as, an up-country village.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb colloq. In an upcountry direction.
- adjective colloq., colloq., colloq. Living or situated remote from the seacoast.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Living or situated remote from the seacoast; as, an upcountry residence.
- noun The interior of the country.
- adverb Towards the interior of the country and away from the seacoast.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb to or in the interior of a country or region
- adjective of or coming from the middle of a region or country
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Examples
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In a mission that troopers quickly dubbed "Operation Ma Bell," special-forces officers called upcountry PDF garrison commanders on the telephone and told them to look out the window at the circling AC-130H Spectre gunships.
Inside The Invasion 2008
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I know that Capetonians call upcountry tourists "Vaalies" - the name deriving from the old Transvaal.
IOL: News 2010
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I know that Capetonians call upcountry tourists "Vaalies" - the name deriving from the old Transvaal.
IOL: News 2010
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If you go to a goat farm, you might as well go to one in the "upcountry" of Maui,
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If you go to a goat farm, you might as well go to one in the "upcountry" of Maui, Hawaii.
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And don't ask what had brought him and Alvaro to be sitting next to each other in the back of the rusted and rattling truck, bouncing through the upcountry jungles where gringos seldom went.
The Captain's Hat 2009
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A hat like that could take a man anywhere in 90% of the world - in the backwaters and towns, on the wharves and docks, even in the mountains or upcountry outposts.
The Captain's Hat 2009
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And don't ask what had brought him and Alvaro to be sitting next to each other in the back of the rusted and rattling truck, bouncing through the upcountry jungles where gringos seldom went.
The Captain's Hat 2009
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Ms. Suu Kyi was arrested after another trip upcountry eight years ago.
McCain Visits Myanmar to Assess Reforms a Wall Street Journal Reporter 2011
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A hat like that could take a man anywhere in 90% of the world - in the backwaters and towns, on the wharves and docks, even in the mountains or upcountry outposts.
The Captain's Hat 2009
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