Scottish Highlands
- proper noun
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Tierras Altas de Escocia
- From the Scottish Highlands.
Margo grew up in the Scottish Highlands and two and her seven books draw extensively on settings and characters from Great Britain.
- Margo grew up in the Scottish Highlands and two and her seven books draw extensively on settings and characters from Great Britain.
Examples
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And if you happened to travel to the Scottish Highlands, you'd notice that a small town called Carrymuir on the banks of Loch Leven was an uncanny twin to Wheelock, Massachusetts.
Fiction book (2001) -
So he'd drown in the frigid and tumultuous waters off the coast of the Scottish Highlands.
Fiction book (2001) -
She lives in the Scottish Highlands.
Academic text (2011) -
Every summer, the Royal family just decamped to the Scottish Highlands, and it's actually said that it's one of the Queen's favorite places to be.
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Margo grew up in the Scottish Highlands and two and her seven books draw extensively on settings and characters from Great Britain.
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It's about a stag weekend in the Scottish Highlands where they're hunting stag and it starts out fine, ends up a little bit.
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I was quite curious to know what had led a man of Mr. Gowan's obvious qualifications to take up a post in the remote Scottish Highlands, far from the amenities of civilized life to which he must be accustomed.
Fiction book (1991) -
With some amusement, I recognized the Highlander settling back for a leisurely dissection of that tangle of family and clan relationships which forms the background of almost any event of significance in the Scottish Highlands.
Fiction book (1991) -
The West Highlander tour takes you through the scenic Scottish Highlands, where you can admire breathtaking mountains and valleys.
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Some say the scenery in the Scottish Highlands is the most beautiful in all of Britain, particularly during the autumn foliage.
Synonyms
An area in northern Scotland with high hills, kilts, and old clan traditions
An area of mountains and hills in northern Scotland known for rugged land and traditional music
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase literally combines 'Scottish' (relating to Scotland) with 'highland' (a mountainous upland area), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it refers to the mountainous region of Scotland. The label is essentially compositional and cross-linguistically paralleled (e.g. Spanish 'Tierras Altas de Escocia'), so the geographic meaning is immediately transparent despite additional cultural associations.
Etymology
Scottish Highlands comes from the idea of the high lands of Scotland, the big, wild hills and mountains where clans lived and looked over the valleys. That's why the name now means 'the mountain area of northern Scotland known for deep lakes, old castles and traditional clan life'.
