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hauteur

/ɔːˈtɜː/US/oʊˈtɝ/

hauteur noun: haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness.

Noun

hauteur (countable and uncountable, plural hauteurs)

  1. Haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness.
    • Who ever went into a public office, and was treated, as he is very apt to be, with the most offensive hauteur by some saucy, well-paid official, without feeling the desire to kick him rising strong within him?1842, Alexander Campbell, “Kickable People”, in Sketches of Life and Character, page 11
    • “What's happened, young Herring?” I think for a moment he was about to draw himself up with hauteur and say he would prefer, if we didn't mind, not to discuss his private affairs, but when he was half-way up he caught Aunt Dahlia's eye and returned to position one.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC

hauteur meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

hauteur in Tamil

திமிர், ஆணவம், இறுமாப்பு, செருக்கு, உயரம்

hauteur in Urdu

اکڑ, غرور, گمان, تکبر

hauteur in Bengali

অহংকার, উদ্ধত ভাব

hauteur in Malayalam

arrogance, haughtiness, superciliousness
ഔദ്ധത്യം, മാമതം, ഗർവ്വം, മാനമദം, അഹങ്കാരം, അഹന്ത

Examples of hauteur in a sentence

  • [A]n angered motorist sounded his horn, but The Senator took no heed: not out of arrogance or hauteur but, simply, because he took no heed.1992, Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 31
  • I imagine the Dreamward’s Hotel Manager to be an avuncular Norwegian with a rag sweater and a soothing odor of Borkum Rif about him, a guy w/o sunglasses or hauteur […]1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition...
  • Sometimes the hauteur is nothing more dire than a kind of black-mother wit.2014 May 28, John McWhorter, “Saint Maya”, in The New Republic, →ISSN:

Forms of hauteur

pluralhauteurs

Origin of hauteur

Borrowed from French hauteur.

Words that rhyme with hauteur

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Questions about hauteur

What does hauteur mean?
Hauteur means haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness.
What is hauteur in Tamil?
Hauteur in Tamil is திமிர், ஆணவம், இறுமாப்பு. See Hauteur meaning in Tamil.
How do you use hauteur in a sentence?
[A]n angered motorist sounded his horn, but The Senator took no heed: not out of arrogance or hauteur but, simply, because he took no heed.
What part of speech is hauteur?
Hauteur is a noun.
How do you pronounce hauteur?
Hauteur is pronounced /oʊˈtɝ/ (US).
What is the plural of hauteur?
The plural of hauteur is hauteurs.

Words near hauteur in the dictionary

  1. Hauterivian
  2. Hauters
  3. Hautes-Alpes
  4. Hautes-Pyrénées
  5. hautest
  6. hauteur
  7. hauteurs
  8. hauth
  9. hauths
  10. hautie
  11. hautpas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hauteur (page history and authors); hauteur (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hauteur (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hauteur (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hauteur (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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