upcountryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

upcountry (not comparable)

1. Living or situated remote from the seacoast.

   Antonym: downcountry

   Near-synonym: inland

   an upcountry residence

   • 2010 Fall, George R. Lamplugh, “James Gunn”, in Georgia Historical Quarterly, volume 94, number 3, pages 313–341:

     The fourth company involved in the purchase, the Upper Mississippi Company (formed by Thomas Scott after he had withdrawn the bid of the Virginia Yazoo Company), apparently restricted its largess to a few upcountry Georgians.

名詞

upcountry (usually uncountable, plural further)

1. The interior of a country.

   Hypernyms: country; land; area; region; place; location

   Near-synonyms: backcountry, hinterland

   • 2010 Fall, George R. Lamplugh, “James Gunn”, in Georgia Historical Quarterly, volume 94, number 3, pages 313–341:

     To further this end, the speculators also distributed subshares to other prominent Georgians, particularly those whose actions might carry weight in the upcountry.

2. The part of the country that is at high elevation.

   Hypernyms: country; land; area; region; place; location

   Near-synonyms: high country, highlands, upland; plateau, tableland, mesa

   • 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 153:

     Within the focus on the colonial South, there are works that detail regional differences in social organization between the backcountry (frontier), upcountry (Appalachia, Piedmont), and lowcountry (plantation).

関連する語

• north country

副詞

upcountry (not generally comparable, comparative further upcountry or farther upcountry, superlative furthest upcountry or farthest upcountry)

1. Towards the interior of the country and away from the seacoast.

   Antonym: downcountry

   Near-synonym: inland

   They went upcountry to visit their extended family.

   • 2010 Oct, Tim Butcher, “Our Man in Liberia”, in History Today, volume 60, number 10, pages 10–17:

     According to Dr Christy in 1931, the authorities in Monrovia had deliberately banned all freelance travel upcountry by outsiders […]