单词 | lowlander |
释义 | lowlandern. 1. Chiefly with capital initial. A native or inhabitant of the Lowlands of Scotland. Cf. highlander n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > Scots nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Scotland > parts of Scotland ScoteOE Irish Scota1387 Irish Scot1521 Irishman1529 Moravian1577 Moravea1600 highlander1610 lowlander1621 trewsman1639 Whiglander1682 northland1698 Norlander1716 plaid1749 bonnet man1763 plaid-man1763 norland1768 Irish Gael1771 Galwegian1774 southern1812 Gallovidian1875 Fifer1887 Clydesider1921 teuchter1940 1621 P. Heylyn Microcosmus 265 The Lowlanders bordering on the East are of the like ingenuous dispositions and language almost with the English. 1692 London Gaz. No. 2732/3 The Clan-Gregor, and many others, both Highlanders and Lowlanders,..are now come in. 1731 J. Mitchell Highland Fair i. i. 5 Commerce and Correspondence with the Lowlanders..will, by Degrees, refine our Notions, Customs, and Manners. 1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 192 Of the..state of the whole Earse nation, the Lowlanders are, at least, as ignorant as ourselves. 1835 J. Monteath Dunblane Trad. i. iv. 16 Parties of Highland harryers, who had descended from the hills during the ‘Michaelmas moons’, to plunder those Lowlanders, who like himself, resided in the neighbourhood of their fastnesses. 1883 Harper's Mag. Dec. 59/2 There is as much difference between a Lowlander and a Highlander as there is between a Prussian drill sergeant and a Neapolitan lazzarone. 1900 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 468/1 The little lowlander strutted as he played the evening melody. 1987 I. Finlayson Scots (1988) iii. 34 The Lowlander, so secure in his contempt, was irritated beyond measure by the refusal of Highlanders to be moved by the lure of glittering prizes. 2010 Scotsman (Nexis) 23 Nov. 38 Every Lowlander who gets married dons a costume devised for the tartan-wearing Highlanders drafted into the British army. 2. gen. A native or inhabitant of a low-lying or flat part of a country or region. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > dweller on low land lowlander1665 1665 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1870) I. 575 An Hollander is not an High-lander, but a Low-lander. 1771 G. Washington Let. 6 Dec. in Papers (1993) Colonial Ser. VIII. 568 Some of the lowlander's..would be very glad to Rent that [place] of Kennedy's. 1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. iv. 105 The hostility of the Lowlanders, the Lapiths, whom they certainly never subdued. 1865 C. Kingsley Hereward I. 4 The lowlander, on the other hand, has his own strength. 1970 Sci. Amer. Feb. 56/1 They do not need to hyperventilate as much as lowlanders do when the latter go to high altitudes. 2009 C.-A. Castro Musical Renderings Philippine Nation ii. 85 The Cordillera people gradually became distinct from the lowlanders during the Spanish colonial period. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1621 |
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