- 1蘇格蘭高地人
A Highlander is a person from the Highlands of Scotland — the north and west of that country, not just any high land. The ending -er means “someone from,” the same idea as . People have long used it for the families who lived in those hills, with their own dress, music, and way of talking. It is a normal word for where someone comes from, not a joke and not an insult. In stories the Highlander is often a fighter in a , and that picture is bigger and tidier than real life; in ordinary English it simply means a person from the Scottish Highlands. You may see it with a capital H because it points to that named place.
組成Highlands + -er (someone from that place).
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Highlandernoun詞源 1
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A person from the Highlands.
Highlandername詞源 2
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A surname from German.
highlandernoun詞源 1/ˈhaɪləndəɹ/
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A person who inhabits the Scottish Highlands.
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Any person who lives in mountainous or hilly terrain.
- 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….
- Other essayists, however, detect significant distinctions between highlander and lowlander—differences in racial attitudes (abolitionist or rabid racist), in the types of work that African Americans performed, and in the extent to which perceptions of whiteness shaped how outsiders understood the region and acted toward it.
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The Igorot people, referring to them originating from the Cordillera Mountain Range.
highlandernoun詞源 2
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A game format in which players are allowed no more than one of any card (except basic resource cards) in their decks.
- I have a blue/white highlander deck (every card is unique, including the lands) and I would like some help tuning it.
- As an example, the "Highlander" tournaments (only one of any particular card) that have been springing up have proven to be a good way to re-energize the tournament scene for some games.
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