high country

1. 1.

   an area lying above the piedmont but below the timberline

   Broaderarea

Questions about high country

What does high country mean?

high country means "an area lying above the piedmont but below the timberline".

Is high country a common word?

high country is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.