name
Meaning 1
A surname from German.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Highlander
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈhaɪləndəɹ/ rhotic
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/ˈhaɪləndə/ non-rhotic
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homophone: islander (H-dropping accents)
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CMU ARPABET: HH AY1 L AE2 N D ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A person from the Highlands.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Broader terms: see Scot
noun
Meaning 3
A person who inhabits the Scottish Highlands.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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noun
Meaning 4
Any person who lives in mountainous or hilly terrain.
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noun
Meaning 5
The Igorot people, referring to them originating from the Cordillera Mountain Range.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Philippines
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noun
Meaning 6
A game format in which players are allowed no more than one of any card (except basic resource cards) in their decks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: capitalized, often, uncountable
Qualifier: collectible card games
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noun
Meaning 7
a native of the Highlands of Scotland
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Scottish Highlander, Highland Scot
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: Scot, Scotsman, Scotchman
noun
Meaning 8
a soldier in a Scottish regiment from the Highlands
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: soldier
History
Etymology
Americanized spelling of German Heilander.
From Highlands + -er, equivalent to a specific application of highlander.
Etymology tree English highland Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English highlander From highland + -er.
From the tagline "There can be only one" of the film Highlander (1986).
Across languages
Translations
54 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: ylämaalainen — inhabitant of the Scottish Highlands
- French: highlander — inhabitant of the Scottish Highlands
- Irish: Gael — inhabitant of the Scottish Highlands
- Irish: Híleantóir — inhabitant of the Scottish Highlands
- Polish: highlander — inhabitant of the Scottish Highlands
- Scottish Gaelic: Gàidheal — inhabitant of the Scottish Highlands
- Amharic: ደጋኛ (dägaña) — inhabitant of highlands
- Arabic: جَبَلِيّ (jabaliyy) — inhabitant of highlands
- Arabic: نَجْدِيّ (najdiyy) — inhabitant of highlands
- Armenian: լեռնական (leṙnakan) — inhabitant of highlands
- Belarusian: го́рац (hórac) — inhabitant of highlands
- Bulgarian: планинец (planinec) — inhabitant of highlands
- Chechen: ламаро (lamaro) — inhabitant of highlands
- Czech: horal — inhabitant of highlands
- Czech: horák — inhabitant of highlands
- Dutch: hooglander — inhabitant of highlands
- Dutch: bergbewoner — inhabitant of highlands
- Egyptian: i-Z11-Dw:Z1 (jmj-ḏw) — inhabitant of highlands
- Esperanto: montano — inhabitant of highlands
- Finnish: ylämaalainen — inhabitant of highlands
- French: montagnard — inhabitant of highlands
- French: montagnarde — inhabitant of highlands
- Galician: brañego — inhabitant of highlands
- German: Gebirgler — inhabitant of highlands
- German: Gebirgsbewohner — inhabitant of highlands
- German: Bergbewohner — inhabitant of highlands
- Greek: βουνίσιος (vounísios) — inhabitant of highlands
- Greek: ορεσίβιος (oresívios) — inhabitant of highlands
- Ingrian: gortsa — inhabitant of highlands
- Italian: montanaro — inhabitant of highlands
- Macedonian: го́рјанин (górjanin) — inhabitant of highlands
- Macedonian: го́рјанка (górjanka) — inhabitant of highlands
- Macedonian: го́рненец (górnenec) — inhabitant of highlands
- Macedonian: го́рненка (górnenka) — inhabitant of highlands
- Macedonian: горно́земец (gornózemec) — inhabitant of highlands
- Macedonian: горно́земка (gornózemka) — inhabitant of highlands
- Plautdietsch: Huachlenda — inhabitant of highlands
- Polish: góral — inhabitant of highlands
- Polish: góralka — inhabitant of highlands
- Romanian: muntean — inhabitant of highlands
- Russian: го́рец (górec) — inhabitant of highlands
- Serbo-Croatian: бр̏ђанин — inhabitant of highlands
- Serbo-Croatian: го̀ранин — inhabitant of highlands
- Serbo-Croatian: го̀ршта̄к — inhabitant of highlands
- Serbo-Croatian: bȑđanin — inhabitant of highlands
- Serbo-Croatian: gòranin — inhabitant of highlands
- Serbo-Croatian: gòrštāk — inhabitant of highlands
- Tagalog: taga-taas — inhabitant of highlands
- Tagalog: taga-bundok — inhabitant of highlands
- Ukrainian: горя́нин (horjányn) — inhabitant of highlands
- Ukrainian: горя́нка (horjánka) — inhabitant of highlands
- Ukrainian: го́рець (hórecʹ) — inhabitant of highlands
- Vilamovian: giörol — inhabitant of highlands
- Welsh: ucheldirwr — inhabitant of highlands
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