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high heels

/haɪ hiːlz/

high heels noun: high-heeled shoes.

high heels: high-heeled shoes
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Noun

high heels pl (normally plural, singular high heel)

  1. (plural, plural-normally, footwear) High-heeled shoes.
    • I look sexier in high heels.
  2. (plural, plural-normally) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see high, heel.
    • Avoid standing for prolonged periods of time, and avoid standing in shoes with high heels.2009, Cathy Mahon, Rescue Your Back, page 106
    Synonyms:
    heels

high heels meaning in Tamil, Arabic, Indonesian and Persian

high heels in Tamil

குதிஉயர்காலணி, குதிகால் செருப்பு, நீண்ட குதி சப்பாத்து

high heels in Arabic

shoes
كعب kaʕb, kaʕab

high heels in Indonesian

shoes
sepatu hak tinggi

high heels in Persian

shoes
پاشنههای بلند
More languagesFewer languages
high heels in Myanmar
ထောက်ဖိနပ် htaukhpi.nap

Synonyms of high heels

Forms of high heels

singularhigh heel

Questions about high heels

What does high heels mean?
High heels means high-heeled shoes.
What is high heels in Tamil?
High heels in Tamil is குதிஉயர்காலணி, குதிகால் செருப்பு, நீண்ட குதி சப்பாத்து. See High heels meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is high heels?
High heels is a noun.
How do you pronounce high heels?
High heels is pronounced /haɪ hiːlz/.

Words near high heels in the dictionary

  1. High Ham
  2. High Harrington
  3. high hat
  4. high hats
  5. high heel
  6. high heels
  7. High Holidays
  8. high hopes
  9. high horse
  10. high horses
  11. high hundreds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: high heels (page history and authors); high heels (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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