highlights
highlights is the plural of highlight.
highlights is the third-person singular simple present indicative of highlight.
Meaning of highlight
Noun
highlight (plural highlights)
- An area or a spot in a drawing, painting, or photograph that is strongly illuminated.
- The image blurred into the highlight, like something familiar seen beneath disturbed though clear water; he looked at the familiar image with a kind of quiet horror and despair, at a face suddenly older in sin than he would ever be, a face more blurred than sweet, at eyes more secret than soft.1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 114
- Antonyms:
- lowlight
- An especially significant or interesting detail or event or period of time.
- Meeting my future wife was the highlight of my trip to Spain.
- A strand or spot of hair dyed a different color than the rest.
Noun
highlights pl (plural only)
- Summary of an event, such as a sporting event, focussing on the most entertaining or consequential aspects; compilation of each highlight of that event
Forms of highlights
| alternative form | hilites |
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Questions about highlights
- What does highlights mean?
- Highlights means summary of an event, such as a sporting event, focussing on the most entertaining or consequential aspects; compilation of each highlight of that event.
- What is highlights the plural of?
- Highlights is the plural of highlight.
- What part of speech is highlights?
- Highlights is a noun.
Words near highlights in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: highlights (page history and authors); highlight (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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