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high and low

high and low adverb: everywhere; all over the place.

Adverb

high and low (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Everywhere; all over the place.
    • He searched high and low for the car keys, through every room in the house.
    • Yes! let the winds of the blastful North, wherever abroad their breath blow, / Tell high and low, to friend and foe, that my arm bestowed his death-blow!1847, The Dublin University Magazine, volume 30, page 215
  2. (dated, obsolete) Wholly; entirely.

Noun

high and low

  1. (dated, obsolete) People of high rank or status.

high and low meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Gujarati

high and low in Urdu

امیر غریب, ہرجگہ, ہرطرف, اونچے نیچے

high and low in Malayalam

all over, everywhere, all around
എല്ലാതലങ്ങളിലും, മുക്കിലും മൂലയിലും, എല്ലായിടത്തും, പരക്കെ, നീള, നീളെ

high and low in Gujarati

high and low
ઊંચુંનીચું ū̃cũnīcũ

Questions about high and low

What does high and low mean?
High and low means everywhere; all over the place.
What is high and low in Urdu?
High and low in Urdu is امیر غریب, ہرجگہ, ہرطرف. See High and low meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is high and low?
High and low can be an adverb or a noun.

Words near high and low in the dictionary

  1. high adventure
  2. High Alemannic
  3. high altar
  4. high altars
  5. high and dry
  6. high and low
  7. High and Low Bishopside
  8. high and mighties
  9. high and mighty
  10. high and tight
  11. high angel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: high and low (page history and authors); high and low (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); high and low (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ઊંચુંનીચું (Gujarati) (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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