Highveld
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English
Etymology
From high + veld, after Dutch hoogeveld.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Highveld
- The inland plateau of South Africa and neighbouring countries, containing greater Johannesburg.
- 1969, Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City, HarperCollins, published 1993, page 13:
- Somewhere early in her childhood, on the farm on the highveld, ‘Matty’ had been created by her as an act of survival.
- 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 30:
- The Ben Schoeman highway, a wide barren lane in the mist without any glimpse of the yellow highveld landscape […].