upland

Other forms of upland

plural

uplands·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about upland

What does upland mean?

upland means "elevated (e.g., mountainous) land". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in upland?

upland has 2 syllables: up-land. The stress falls on "up". In IPA it is /ˈʌplənd/.

What is another word for upland?

Close synonyms include highland, highland. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of upland?

The recorded antonyms are lowland.

Is upland a common word?

upland 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.