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单词 highlander
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highlandern.

Brit. /ˈhʌɪləndə/, U.S. /ˈhaɪləndər/
Forms: see highland n. and adj. and -er suffix1
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: highland n., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < highland n. + -er suffix1. Compare earlier Highlandman n. and also Highland woman n. Compare also lowlander n.
1. Chiefly with capital initial.
a. A native or inhabitant of the Scottish Highlands. Cf. Highlandman n.
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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
1610 King James VI & I Speach Whitehall xxj. March 1609 sig. C2v If the Law of hanging for Theft, were turned here to restitution of treble or quadruple..what would become of all the middle Shires, and all the Irishrie and Highlanders?
1653 in W. Clarke Papers (2005) V. 140 The highlanders of Scotland begin to plunder the lowlanders so that they are not able to pay their assessments.
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 62 He's as proud of these, as a Highlander is of a pair of Bag-pipes.
1769 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 7) IV. 236 The Natives of Inverness do not call themselves Highlanders, because they speak English.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Midlothian iii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 72 An old grey-headed and grey-bearded Highlander..bent double by age.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 335 The Highlander..was..morally and physically well qualified for war.
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.
1910 W. H. Gregg Controv. Issues in Sc. Hist. 65 Robertson emphatically asserts that the Highlanders are descendants of the Caledonian Picts.
1953 K. M. Briggs Personnel of Fairyland 81 King George sent his redcoats to build new roads all over the Highlands and to civilize the Highlanders whether they would or no.
1991 Wine & Spirits Apr. 27 (advt.) The taste of Highland Park Single Malt quite simply makes critics, connoisseurs and highlanders sing its praises.
2007 C. MacFarlane Real Gorbals Story (2009) xiv. 109 In the 1960s, English people were turning up in Highland villages with what the Highlanders called their ‘London money’ and buying up cottages and farms cheaply.
b. Military. A member of a Highland regiment or other military unit originally composed of Highlanders (sense 1a) or those of Highland descent. Usually in plural, frequently in the names of such units.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier of specific force or unit > [noun]
spahi1562
legionnaire1595
strelitz1603
Croat1623
deli1667
Croatian1700
lancer1712
highlander1725
lambs1744
royals1762
light-bob1778
fly-slicer1785
Life Guardsman1785
royals?1795
Hottentot1796
yeoman1798
pandour1800
Faugh-a-Ballaghsc1811
forty-two man1816
kilty1842
Zouave1848
bumblerc1850
Inniskilliner1853
blue cap1857
turco1860
Zou-Zou1860
mudlark1878
king's man1883
Johnny1888
Piffer1892
evzone1897
horse gunner1897
dink1906
army ranger1910
grognard1912
Jock1914
chocolate soldier1915
Cook's tourist1915
dinkum1916
Anzaca1918
choc1917
ranger1942
Chindit1943
Desert Rat1944
Green Beret1949
1725 Caledonian Mercury 20 July 5432/1 A Troop of the Gray Horse, together with the Independent Highlanders now in this Place, march'd to the Grass-market.
1777 in New Jersey Archives (1901) 2nd Ser. I. 392 On Monday last we had a brush with the Philistines, killing three lighthorsemen, four Highlanders, and one Lieut. Colonel.
1846 J. Grant Romance of War III. i. 19 Louis..appeared..in the uniform of the Gordon Highlanders.
1888 R. Kipling Wee Willie Winkie 103 A Highlander..turning to a Gurkha, said, ‘Hya, Johnny!’
1917 J. C. Hopkins Canad. Ann. Rev. Public Affairs 1916 248 Two days later he reviewed the four Battalions of the Nova Scotia Highlanders.
1969 Life 15 Aug. 50 Highland regiments of the British Army wear the kilt. Awed by the Highlanders' ferocity in World War I battles, the Germans dubbed them ‘the ladies from hell’.
2013 Daily Record (Nexis) 29 June 16 The Queen gave her Highlanders a final smile yesterday. She's honorary colonel of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, who cease to exist as a battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland today.
2. gen. An inhabitant of an elevated or mountainous region.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > dweller on high land
Highlandman1450
overlander1548
mountainer1577
mountaineer1599
highlander1614
mountainist1625
uplander1699
hillman1854
hill-woman1895
hillsider1898
tiersman1941
Montagnard1966
1614 W. Lithgow Most Delectable Disc. Peregrination sig. F2 All these High-landers of Candy, are tyrannicall, blood-thirstie and deceitfull.
1681 C. Cotton Wonders of Peake 45 More natural to your Peak Highlander.
1742 Gentleman's Mag. June 334/2 HIs Sardinian Majesty..has ordered the Peasants and Highlanders..to guard the Passes.
1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine ix. 329 The Israelite highlanders of the neighbouring heights.
1880 S. Haughton Six Lect. Physical Geogr. iv. 171 The Syrian highlanders..were a perpetual nuisance to the more powerful countries that surrounded them.
1913 M. W. Morley Carolina Mts. 175 When you hear of one of your friends spoken of by a highlander as being ‘common’ you are puzzled.
1949 H. Wilcox White Stranger 3 I have introduced to the English-reading world the South Toraja highlanders of Celebes.
2000 New Scientist 16 Sept. 34/3 The skulls of the central highlanders provide the clearest evidence that trepanation was a treatment for fractured skulls.
3. An animal of a Highland breed of cattle (see Highland cattle n. at highland n. and adj. Compounds); spec. = West Highlander n. 1.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > breeds of ox > [noun] > of Scotland > Highland cow or cattle
black cattle1725
Highland cattle1751
highlander1771
West Highlander1805
kyloe1811
West Highland1843
1771 Caledonian Mercury 17 Aug. One Hundred Cows, mostly Highlanders, laid early on the grass in the spring to fatten.
1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 381 Highlanders, Scotch cattle of the Highland breed.
1825 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. §6122 The other variety of Highland cattle is the Norlands, or North Highlanders.
1834 W. Youatt Cattle iii. 79 The character of the Highlander must still be, that he will pay better for his quantity of food than any other breed.
1860 Farmer's Mag. Dec. 481/1 When his Highlanders were four years old he sent them to the London Christmas market.
1912 J. P. Sheldon Dairying viii. 129 The Highlanders are common to the mainland of the North of Scotland.., and they seem generally to have been of larger size than the West Highlanders.
1953 A. Fraser Beef Cattle Husb. ix. 127 These testimonials to the Highlander and more especially to its Shorthorn crosses are from breeders carrying beef production to the stage of the weaned calf.
2013 I. Glimmerveen in I. D. Rotherham Trees, Forested Landscapes & Grazing Animals xxiv. 344 This is grazed with 12 Scottish Highlanders for the specific aim of maintaining and enhancing the habitat.
4. In plural. With capital initial. Playing cards of an inferior quality, sold in a wrapper depicting a Highlander (sense 1a). Now historical and rare.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > cards of specific quality
mattress1685
merry-andrews1759
highlanders1816
Harrys or King Harrys1842
Mogul1842
paper1894
1816 National Advocate (N.Y.) 12 Dec. (table) A large assortment of Playing Cards, consisting of..500 doz Crehore's superf. black Eagle..100 d[itt]o Highlanders.
1842 Bradshaw's Jrnl. 16 Apr. in Philol. Soc. Trans. (1867) 63 The best cards are called Moguls, the others Harrys and Highlanders.
1948 W. R. Benét Reader's Encycl. 731 Inferior cards were called ‘Harrys’, ‘Highlanders’, and ‘Merry Andrews’.
5. Angling. A kind of artificial fly, typically used in salmon fishing. Now esp. in green highlander.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > types of
moor flylOE
drake-flya1450
dub-flya1450
dun cut1496
dun fly1496
louper1496
red fly1616
moorish fly1635
palmer1653
palmer fly1653
red hackle1653
red palmer1653
shell-fly1653
orange fly1662
blackfly1669
dun1676
dun hackle1676
hackle1676
mayfly1676
peacock fly1676
thorn-tree fly1676
turkey-fly1676
violet-fly1676
whirling dun1676
badger fly1681
greenfly1686
moorish brown1689
prime dun1696
sandfly1700
grey midge1724
whirling blue1747
dun drake?1758
death drake1766
hackle fly1786
badger1787
blue1787
brown-fly1787
camel-brown1787
spinner1787
midge1799
night-fly1799
thorn-fly1799
turkey1799
withy-fly1799
grayling fly1811
sun fly1820
cock-a-bondy1835
brown moth1837
bunting-lark fly1837
governor1837
water-hen hackle1837
Waterloo fly1837
coachman1839
soldier palmer1839
blue jay1843
red tag1850
canary1855
white-tip1856
spider1857
bumble1859
doctor1860
ibis1863
Jock Scott1866
eagle1867
highlander1867
jay1867
John Scott1867
judge1867
parson1867
priest1867
snow-fly1867
Jack Scott1874
Alexandra1875
silver doctor1875
Alexandra fly1882
grackle1894
grizzly queen1894
heckle-fly1897
Zulu1898
thunder and lightning1910
streamer1919
Devon1924
peacock1950
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling x. 322 The highlander may be found useful at times.
1888 Fishing Gaz. 18 Feb. 87/2 The best flies are Black Doctor,..Cromarty, Highlander, Duke of Sutherland, Dusty Miller, and Kirkaig.
1922 Centennial Catal. Fishing Tackle (W. Mills & Son, N.Y.) 84 (table) Black Dose..Dusty Miller..Highlander..Thunder and Lightning.
1997 J. Wilson Coarse Fishing Method Man. (1998) 117/3 Patterns such as silver doctor, green highlander and thunder and lightning, all of which have a jungle cock feather tied in at the head to represent the eye of a small fish.
6. A Highland terrier; spec. a West Highland White terrier (= West Highlander n. 2).In quot. 1912: a Skye terrier.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > terrier > [noun] > West Highland terrier
Highland terrier1777
Poltalloch1887
West Highland1904
West Highlander1907
highlander1912
westie1949
1912 E. Atkinson Greyfriars Bobby viii. 171 He was filled with a fierce championship of the wee Highlander.
1922 R. Leighton Compl. Bk. Dog xvii. 262 I suspect that Colonel Malcolm would be sorely distressed could he see some of the enormous White Highlanders of the present era.
2002 D. Rice Small Dog Breeds 221/1 A typical Highlander demands ceaseless commitment to lessons, exercise, and games.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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