lowland

1 of 2

noun

low·​land ˈlō-lənd 

-ˌland

: low or level country

lowland

2 of 2

adjective

1

capitalized : of or relating to the Lowlands of Scotland

2

: of or relating to a lowland

Examples of lowland in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Due to ever-fiercer droughts and heat waves, 90 percent of the traditional coastal and lowland wine growing regions of Spain, Italy, Greece, and southern California could be at existential risk by the end of the century. —Matt Simon, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024

However, Anderson notes that north of Little Rock, the path is split between the Boston Mountains and the Ozark Plateau to the north of the centerline and lowlands to the south. —Jamie Carter, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024

Every week, Nepali, a strong and stocky forty-one-year-old, hitches animal carcasses to a truck and drags them into a clearing near Chitwan National Park, in the lowlands of Nepal. —Meera Subramanian, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024

Evacuation orders have already been made in Ventura County, where runoff from up to a foot of rain in the mountains will couple with drenching in the lowlands. —Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2024

The nighttime cold that’s set in around the region will deepen this weekend, with overnight lows dropping into the 30s in lowlands and into the 20s in the mountains. —Sam Schulz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024

The vegetation in the lowland areas of Maui is particularly parched this year, with below-average precipitation in the spring, and hardly any rainfall this summer. —Mark Thiessen and Audrey McAvoy, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Aug. 2023

The map shows that cloud cover over the lowlands at the southern limit of the eclipse is nearly 20 percent higher than at the hilly northern limit, reaching a minimum near Junction, Texas. —Jay Anderson, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024

Further south, some lowlands remain underwater near the village of Demydiv, which was deliberately flooded to halt the Russian advance in spring 2022. —Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2024

Adjective

Writing today in the journal Nature Communications, researchers describe a proof-of-concept project in the lowland Chocó region of Ecuador that shows the potential power of bioacoustics in conserving forests. —WIRED, 17 Oct. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

Noun

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Adjective

1504, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing lowland

• lowland gorilla

Kids Definition

lowland

noun

low·​land

-lənd,

-ˌland

: low and usually level country

lowland adjective