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A lowlander is a person who lives in, or comes from, the — the lower, flatter country, not the mountains. In Britain, Lowlander often means someone from the of Scotland, set against a Highlander. The ending -er is the same kind of ending as in New Yorker: it names a person from a place, not the place itself. The land is lowland or the ; the person is a lowlander. Outside talk about Scotland it can sound a little .
低地人;尤指蘇格蘭低地人
組成lowland + -er (a person from that place). Also Lowlands + -er when it means a person from the Scottish Lowlands.
同家族的字
- lowlandthe place the person comes from
- highlanderthe same -er pattern for someone from the highlands
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
Lowlandernoun
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A person from the Scottish Lowlands.
lowlandernoun
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A person who inhabits the Scottish Lowlands.
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Anyone who lives in a lowland region.
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derogatoryanyone who is not living on the Cordillera Mountain Range.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。