Upland

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns.

II. Upland ·adj Pertaining to the country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns; rustic; rude; unpolished.

III. Upland ·adj Of or pertaining to uplands; being on upland; high in situation; as, upland inhabitants; upland pasturage.

IV. Upland ·noun High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry;

— opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the like.