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upcountry

upcountry adjective: living or situated remote from the seacoast.

Adjective

upcountry (not comparable)

  1. Living or situated remote from the seacoast.
    • Near-synonym: inland
    • an upcountry residence
    Synonyms:
    inland
    Antonyms:
    downcountry

Noun

upcountry (usually uncountable, plural further)

  1. (usually) The interior of a country.
    • Near-synonyms: backcountry, hinterland
    • To further this end, the speculators also distributed subshares to other prominent Georgians, particularly those whose actions might carry weight in the upcountry.2010 Fall, George R. Lamplugh, “James Gunn”, in Georgia Historical Quarterly, volume 94, number 3, pages 313–341
  2. (usually) The part of the country that is at high elevation.
    • Near-synonyms: high country, highlands, upland; plateau, tableland, mesa
    • 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).2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 153

Adverb

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

  1. (not comparable, usually) Towards the interior of the country and away from the seacoast.
    • Near-synonym: inland
    • They went upcountry to visit their extended family.
    Synonyms:
    inland
    Antonyms:
    downcountry

upcountry meaning in Tamil

upcountry in Tamil

நாட்டின் உட்பகுதி, நாட்டுப்புற

Synonyms of upcountry

Antonyms

Forms of upcountry

Noun
pluralfurther
Adverb
comparativefurther upcountry
comparativefarther upcountry
superlativefurthest upcountry
superlativefarthest upcountry

Origin of upcountry

Possibly a calque of French Pays d'en Haut, a designation from 1610 referring to the area of New France west of Montreal. By surface analysis, up + country.

Questions about upcountry

What does upcountry mean?
Upcountry means living or situated remote from the seacoast.
What is upcountry in Tamil?
Upcountry in Tamil is நாட்டின் உட்பகுதி, நாட்டுப்புற. See Upcountry meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is upcountry?
Upcountry can be an adjective, a noun or an adverb.

Words near upcountry in the dictionary

  1. upconverting
  2. upconverts
  3. upcore
  4. Upcott
  5. Upcotts
  6. upcountry
  7. upcourt
  8. upcraned
  9. upcrawl
  10. upcrawled
  11. upcrawling

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: upcountry (page history and authors); upcountry (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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