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high country

noun

  1. a mountainous area below the timberline; a forested mountain area.


high country

noun

  1. the high country
    sheep pastures in the foothills of the Southern Alps, New Zealand
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • high-coun·try [hahy, -kuhn-tree], adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of high country1

First recorded in 1450–1500
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Example Sentences

I now find myself routinely leaving for five- to ten-day hunts, chasing everything from high country elk to desert mule deer, and even javelina and turkey.

In the forested valley where I live, it’s too wet to mountain bike and there’s not yet enough snow in the high country to ski.

Furthermore, it’s a welcome reminder that the slide from winter to spring to summer in the high country is nutso, totally dynamic and exciting and suspenseful.

While I avoid the Valley during such madness, it’s the perfect time to escape to the high country near Tuolumne Meadows, where lower temperatures and thinner crowds prevail.

Now snow blew to twenty-foot drifts in high country, and still the law had no luck.

Stay: Book your stay at the High Sierra Camps, a series of chalets and hiking trails in the high country of the park.

A normal river—in fact, all the greater streams of the earth—originates in high country, generally in a region of mountains.

We worked down slowly from the high country, takin' it easy an' gatherin' in spoils as we went.

The faint roll of thunder came down a wind, damp and cool, sucked from the high country.

After the heat and dust and brown of the lower hills, this high country was inexpressibly grateful.

Empty levels lay opposite, narrowing up into the high country.

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