Upland

1. a. Pertaining to the country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns; rustic; rude; unpolished.
2. n. 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.
3. n. The country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns.
4. a. Of or pertaining to uplands; being on upland; high in situation; as, upland inhabitants; upland pasturage.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.