Definition of Highlander

1. Noun. A soldier in a Scottish regiment from the Highlands.

Generic synonyms: Soldier
Derivative terms: Highlands

2. Noun. A native of the Highlands of Scotland.
Exact synonyms: Highland Scot, Scottish Highlander
Generic synonyms: Scot, Scotchman, Scotsman
Derivative terms: Highlands

Definition of Highlander

1. n. An inhabitant of highlands, especially of the Highlands of Scotland.

Definition of Highlander

1. Noun. (alternative capitalization of highlander) ¹

2. Noun. A person who inhabits the Scottish Highlands. ¹

3. Noun. Any person who lives in mountainous or hilly terrain. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Highlander

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Highlander

High Holy Day
High Middle Ages
High Renaissance
High Sierra
High Street
Highbury
Higher Intermediate Fare
Higher Intermediate Point
Higher National Diploma
Highland
Highland Gaelic
Highland games
Highland wildcat
Highland wildcats
Highlander
Highlanders
Highlandry
Highlands
Highlands and Islands
Highlands of Scotland
Highmore's body
Highness
Highnesses
Highveld
Highway Code
Highways Agency
Higi
Higson

Literary usage of Highlander

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1885)
"BY AN OLD highlander. BEHOLD how great a matter a little fire kindleth ! There is a conflagration in Skye. What is it about t The people there are better ..."

2. Report of the Commission Appointed to Investigate the Zinc Resources of by Canada Zinc commission, Walter Renton Ingalls, Philip Argall, Alfred C. Gardé, Alfred Ernest Barlow, Henry Harris, Henry E. Wood (1906)
"highlander MILL AND MINING COMPANY. The property of the highlander Mill and ... The highlander vein varies from 25 feet down to about 2 feet in width, ..."

3. English Lands, Letters and Kings by Donald Grant Mitchell (1897)
"A highlander. Another writer — whose sympathies from the beginning were with the ... A highlander by birth — he was at Aberdeen University — afterwards in ..."

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