HIGH COUNTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high country mean? 

• HIGH COUNTRY (noun)
  The noun HIGH COUNTRY has 1 sense:

1. an area lying above the piedmont but below the timberline

  Familiarity information: HIGH COUNTRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGH COUNTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An area lying above the piedmont but below the timberline

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("high country" is a kind of...):

area; country (a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography))