upland

Land or an area of land of high elevation, especially when level.

Land in the interior of a country.

Of, relating to, or located in an upland.

The region in the interior; inland districts; country as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns or populous districts.

The higher grounds of a district; ground elevated above meadows and valleys; slopes of hills, etc.

plural A grade of cotton. See cotton.

Of or pertaining to the inland districts, or the country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns.

Hence Rustic; countrified; rude; savage; uncivilized. Compare inland, 4.

Of or pertaining to uplands, or higher grounds: as, upland pasturage; also, frequenting uplands: as, the upland plover.

High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; — opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the like.