Mead and Bateson chose the upland village of Bajoeng Gede for their research, because a lack of iodine in the villagers' diet made them slow of speech.
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Upland
//ˈʌplənd//
Synonyms for "upland" (116 found)
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Related words (58)
lunar maremaremeadows and pasturesmesamesillamoormoorlandmoorsmountain-dwellingmountainousopen countrypampapampaspastoralpeneplainplainplainsplateauplayaprairie
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prairiesprovinceprovincesprovincialriserolling countryruralrural districtrusticrustic regionsalt flatsalt marshsalt pansavannasebkhasteppesteppestabletablelandthe countrythe soilthe stickstobacco belttree veldtundrauplandsuppervegaveldwealdwheat beltwide open spaceswide-open spaceswoldwoodlandwoods and fieldsyokeldom
Noun(1 words)
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12 entriessimilar
7 entriesTranslations
16 translations across 13 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- възвишение noun (area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation)
Esperanto
1 entries- altaĵaro noun (area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation)
Finnish
1 entries- ylänkö noun (area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation)
Irish
2 entries- ardtalamh noun (area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation)
- talamh ard noun (area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation)
Macedonian
1 entries- возвише́ние noun (area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- یایلا noun (area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation)
Persian
3 entries- تابستانگاه noun (area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation)
- سردسیر noun (area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation)
- ییلاق noun (area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation)
Polish
1 entries- wysoczyzna noun (area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation)
Russian
1 entries- возвы́шенность noun (area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- mullach noun (area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation)
Tày
1 entries- búng slung noun (area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation)
Ukrainian
1 entries- височина́ noun (area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation)
Vietnamese
1 entries- vùng cao noun (area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
The boy had never before strayed so far north as this from the nestling hamlet in which he had been deposited by the carrier from a railway station southward, one dark evening some few months earlier, and till now he had had no suspicion that such a wide, flat, low-lying country lay so near at hand, under the very verge of his upland world.
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They had a load of coals behind them—a fuel that could only be got into the upland by this particular route.
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The agency says its biggest challenge so far has been providing enough shelter from the rain and cold in this upland area.
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