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height

/haɪt/

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obsolete/heɪt/

height noun: the distance from the base to the top of something.

Noun

height (countable and uncountable, plural heights)

  1. The distance from the base to the top of something.
    • Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length [title of poem]1942, Robert Frost, “Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length”, in A Witness Tree, New York: Henry Hold and Company, published 1943, page 15
    • He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    stature
    1. The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).
      • — What's your height? — 180 centimetres.
    2. The minimum distance from a vertex of a triangle to (the extension of) the edge opposite, namely along a line perpendicular to the edge.
      • The area of a triangle is "a half base times height".
    3. The amplitude of a sinusoid.
  2. The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level.
    • We flew at a height of 15 000 meters.
    • I'm afraid of heights.
    Synonyms:
    altitude
    Antonyms:
    depth
  3. A high point.
    • At length they arrived at the open road, skirted by a wide heath, bounded by the rising heights of the undulating country.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 37
    • The Guardian of the Flooded Village has grown for 350 years on a rocky height near the village of Chudobin, said locally to play host to a devil that sat under it at night, playing the violin and warding off intruders – though in reality the eerie sounds are more likely to have come from the strong...2020 March 17, Fiona Harvey, “Pine tree near flooded Czech village voted European tree of the year”, in The Guardian
    1. (figuratively) The highest point or maximum degree.
      • She's at the height of her career.
      • […]They clip vs drunkards, and with Swiniſh phraſe / Soyle our addition, and indeede it takes / From our atchieuements, though perform’d at height / The pith and marrow of our attribute[…]c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604...
    2. A mountain, especially a very high one.
    3. (Sussex) An area of land at the top of a cliff.
  4. A quality of vowels, indicating the vertical position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth; in practice, the first formant, associated with the height of the tongue.

Proper noun capitalized: Height

Height (plural Heights)

  1. A surname.

height meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

height in Hindi

distance from bottom to top
ऊंचाई ūñcāī

height in Tamil

உயரம்

height in Marathi

distance from bottom to top
उंची uñcī

height in Urdu

distance from bottom to top
اونچائی ūncāī
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height in Bengali
উচ্চতা uccota
height in Telugu
పొడుగు poḍugu, ఎత్తు ettu, ఉన్నతము unnatamu
height in Malayalam
ഉയരം uyaraṁ, പൊക്കം pokkaṁ, ഉച്ചി ucci
height in Kannada
ಎತ್ತರ, ನಿಲುವು, ನೀಳುದ್ದ, ಔನ್ನತ್ಯ
height in Punjabi
بوٹا būṭā
height in Gujarati
ઊંચાઈ ū̃cāī
height in Odia
ଉଚ୍ଚତା uccatā
height in Sanskrit
ऊर्ध्व ūrdhva
height in Assamese
উচ্চতা ussota
height in Nepali
उचाइ ucāi
height in Pashto
قد, جګتيا jəgtyā́
height in Tagalog
taas
height in Arabic
اِرْتِفَاع irtifāʕ
height in Malay
ketinggian
height in Persian
بلندی bolandi, ارتفاع ertefâ', بالا bâlâ, بلندا bolandâ
height in Thai
ความสูง kwaam-sǔung, ส่วนสูง sùuan-sǔung
height in Vietnamese
độ cao, cao, chiều cao
height in Myanmar
အမြင့် a.mrang., စောက် cauk

Examples of height in a sentence

  • During the height of Italian immigration in the United States and in New York City, gangs flourished not only because of poverty but also because of political and social corruption.2004, Peter Bondanella, chapter 4, in Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos, pages 173–174:
  • If City never quite reached the heights of their 6-1 demolition of United, then Roberto Mancini's side should still have had this game safe long before Johnson restored their two-goal advantage.2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport:
  • In the nineteen-fifties, the height of aspirational style was fine French furniture—F.F.F., as it became known in certain precincts of Fifth Avenue and Palm Beach.2022 July 18, Evan Osnos, “The Haves and the Have-Yachts”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 Jul 2022:

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Synonyms of height

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Antonyms

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Forms of height

Noun
pluralheights
alternative form (obsolete)heighth
alternative form (obsolete)heigth
alternative form (obsolete)hight
alternative form (obsolete)highth
Proper noun
pluralHeights

Plural of height: heights

Origin of height

From Middle English heighte, heiȝþe, from Old English hēahþu, hēhþo, hīehþu (“height”), Proto-West Germanic *hauhiþu, from Proto-Germanic *hauhiþō (compare *hauhaz). Equivalent to high + -t (abstract nominal suffix). The regular pronunciation is now obsolete /heɪt/ (as with other words in -eight); the modern form developed early on, at first as a variant, by analogy with the underlying adjective. Cognates See also Saterland Frisian Höchte, Hööchte (“height”), West Frisian hichte (“height”), Dutch hoogte (“height”), Middle High German hœhede, hœhte (“height”), Old Norse hæð (“height”) (compare Swedish höjd, Norwegian høyde), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌹𐌸𐌰 (hauhiþa, “height”).

English surname, spelling variant of Hight.

Words formed from height

Phrases with height

Words that rhyme with height

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Questions about height

What does height mean?
Height means the distance from the base to the top of something.
What is height in Hindi?
Height in Hindi is ऊंचाई (ūñcāī). See Height meaning in Hindi.
How do you use height in a sentence?
During the height of Italian immigration in the United States and in New York City, gangs flourished not only because of poverty but also because of political and social corruption.
What part of speech is height?
Height can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce height?
Height is pronounced /haɪt/.
What is the plural of height?
The plural of height is heights.

Words near height in the dictionary

  1. heighday
  2. heighdays
  3. Heighington
  4. heigho
  5. heighs
  6. height
  7. height above average terrain
  8. height map
  9. height money
  10. height to paper
  11. heightcel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: height (page history and authors); Height (page history and authors); height (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); height (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); بوٹا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ଉଚ୍ଚତା (Odia) (page history and authors); उचाइ (Nepali) (page history and authors); جګتيا (Pashto) (page history and authors). 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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