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highland [ˈhaɪlənd] n 1. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) relatively high ground 2. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) (modifier) of or relating to a highland highlander n Highland [ˈhaɪlənd] n
1. (Placename) a council area in N Scotland, formed in 1975 (as Highland Region) from Caithness, Sutherland, Nairnshire, most of Inverness-shire, and Ross and Cromarty except for the Outer Hebrides. Administrative centre: Inverness. Pop.: 208 914 (2001). Area: 25 149 sq. km (9710 sq. miles) 2. (Placename) (modifier) of, relating to, or denoting the Highlands of Scotland ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Translations highland [ˈhaɪlənd] ADJ → montañés, de montaña; [region] → montañoso Highland dress traje tradicional de las Tierras Altas de Escocia Highland fling baile escocés Highland Games → juegos mpl escoceses see also highlands HIGHLAND GAMES Los Highland Games se celebran anualmente en distintos lugares de Escocia y en ellos se realizan competiciones de deportes tradicionales celtas, junto con bailes típicos y concursos de gaitas. Probablemente, de todos los juegos, el más famoso es el que tiene lugar en Braemar, cerca de Balmoral, en el noreste de Escocia. Entre las competiciones normalmente asociadas con estos juegos están el lanzamiento de troncos (tossing the caber) y el lanzamiento de martillo. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In a lonely Highland village more than a hundred and fifty years ago there lived a little boy called James Macpherson. Every partner who had charge of an interior post, and a score of retainers at his Command, felt like the chieftain of a Highland clan, and was almost as important in the eyes of his dependents as of himself. Johnson and others, who had dared to say in their time that the poems of Ossian were not genuine lays of the Gaelic bard, handed down from father to son, and taken from the lips of old women in Highland huts, as Macpherson claimed. |
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