low-country

[ loh-kuhn-tree ]

/ ˈloʊˌkʌn tri /

adjective

Often Low-Country. of or relating to the Low Countries.

of or relating to a low country.

Origin of low-country

First recorded in 1790–1800

Words nearby low-country

low-carbon steel, low-compliance bladder, low-context, low-cost, low-count, low-country, low-density, low-density lipoprotein, low-density polyethylene, low-down, low-end

Definition for low-country (2 of 3)

Low Countries

plural noun

the lowland region near the North Sea, forming the lower basin of the Rhine, Meuse, and Scheldt rivers, divided in the Middle Ages into numerous small states: corresponding to modern Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.

Definition for low-country (3 of 3)

low country

noun

a low-lying region or area, as the coastal plains of the Carolinas and Georgia.

Example sentences from the Web for low-country

The life of the low-country South Carolina planter, until broken up by the war, had changed but little since colonial times.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 17, No. 97, January, 1876 |Various
The marriage ceremonies last over four days, and are of the low-country Telugu type.

Castes and Tribes of Southern India |Edgar Thurston
The Danaid is a low-country insect, while the Fritillary is not found until several thousand feet up.

Mimicry in Butterflies |Reginald Crundall Punnett
As the shepherds do not belong to the low-country, so neither do the poets belong to the flats of verse.

Adonais |Shelley

The low-country men were of the former opinion, the Highlanders of the latter.

The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) |James Pringle Thomson

British Dictionary definitions for low-country