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Lowlands

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Low·lands  (llndz)
A region of Scotland lying south of the Highlands.
Lowland adj.
Lowland·er n.
Lowlands
Noun
a low generally flat region of S Central Scotland
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Noun1.LowlandsLowlands - the southern part of Scotland that is not mountainous
Lowlands of Scotland
Scotland - one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts
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lowlands [ˈləuləndz] low npl → Flachland nt


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This appeal is not always a charm, for there are estuaries of a particularly dispiriting ugliness: lowlands, mud- flats, or perhaps barren sandhills without beauty of form or amenity of aspect, covered with a shabby and scanty vegetation conveying the impression of poverty and uselessness.
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The situation of Windygates had been skillfully chosen in that part of the county where the fertile lowlands first begin to merge into the mountain region beyond.
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The journey over the intervening uplands and lowlands of Egdon, when she reached them, was a more troublesome walk than she had anticipated, the distance being actually but a few miles.
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