highlander
(noun)
noun
1. a soldier in a Scottish regiment from the Highlands
Definition categories: person, soldier
2. a native of the Highlands of Scotland
Definition categories: person, scot, scotchman, scotsman
Sentences with highlander as a noun:
- "He gave credence to the long-standing impression that southern highlanders were as a whole 'a hardy race of European dissenters' of very different stock from other southern colonists…. As backwoodsmen and highlanders, they opposed slavery formally, through abolitionist organizations, newspapers, or institutions of higher education…." (John C. Inscoe, Appalachians and Race: "Introduction" 1, 2001)"Other essayists, however, detect significant distinctions between highlander a