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lowland

nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,716 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: lowlands

Lowland is flat country lying at a low level. Lowland farming, the lowlands, lowland Britain.

In Scotland the Lowlands and the Highlands are a cultural and linguistic division as much as a geographical one. Lowland ground is where the good farmland is, which is why the population sits there.

Definitions of lowland

  1. 1nounlowlandFlat country lying at a low level.B2+

    “The river floods the lowland every spring, leaving the soil rich and fertile.”

lowland is a land.

Where it comes from

Low plus land, recorded from the sixteenth century and used first of the Scottish Lowlands.

From low + land.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

lowland in the wild

  • A coastal plain (also coastal plains, coastal lowland, coastal lowlands) is an area of flat, low-lying land adjacent to a sea coast.

    Coastal plain

  • Upland and lowland are conditional descriptions of a plain based on elevation above sea level.

    Upland and lowland

  • The classification is extensively used in Germany where about 34 percent of all castles are of the lowland type.

    Lowland castle

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.