Upcountry Common

Upcountry has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions

Noun

The interior of the country.

Adjective

of or coming from the middle of a region or country

"upcountry districts"

interior midland upcountry

Living or situated remote from the seacoast

Adverb

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

Origin

The word likely comes from translating the French term Pays d'en Haut, which in 1610 described the region of New France located west of Montreal. It can also be understood simply as the combination of "up" and "country."

Rhyming Words

try extry autry metry nitry iatry latry entry retry pantry sextry bantry peltry gantry hostry sultry mistry vintry vestry ometry

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