hight
/haɪt/
hight verb: to call, name. Also the obsolete form of height.
Verb
hight (third-person singular simple present hights, present participle highting, simple past and past participle hight)
- To call, name.
- King Arthur's court was hight Camelot.
- He that made loue vnto the eldeſt Dame, Was hight Sir Huddibras, an hardy man[…]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene, page 209
- To be called or named.
- I hight Sir Galahad.
- Bright was her hue, and Geraldine she hight.c. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The faithful Lover declareth his Pains and his uncertain Joys, and with only Hope recomforteth somewhat his woful Heart
- To command; to enjoin.
- Malaise priest of Innishmurry / Hights me go, and I obey.1872, John Stuart Blackie, Lays of the Highlands and Islands
Adjective
hight (not comparable)
- Called, named.
- […]there dwelt in a city of the cities of China a man which was a tailor, withal a pauper, and he had one son, Alaeddin hight.1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 514”, in Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume)...
- Synonyms:
- yclept
Proper noun capitalized: Hight
Hight (plural Hights)
- A surname.
Also used as
hight is also the obsolete form of height.
hight is also the misspelling of height.
hight meaning in Persian, Thai, Vietnamese and Myanmar
hight in Persian
- be called
- گفته شدن gofte šodan
hight in Thai
- be called
- ชื่อ chʉ̂ʉ
hight in Vietnamese
- be called
- được gọi là
hight in Myanmar
- be called
- ခေါ် hkau
Examples of hight in a sentence
- “Lord,” said Sir Launcelot, “I am hight Launcelot, and am surnamed ‘He of the Lake.’”1905, Howard Pyle, “The Story of Launcelot”, in The Story of the Champions of the Round Table, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 66:
- In all the worlde one onely face of nature did abide, which Chaos hight1567, Ovid, The.xv.Bookes of P. Ouidius Naſo, entytuled Metamorphoſis, tranſlated oute of Latin into Engliſh meeter, by Arthur Golding...
- There did I ſee that low ſpirited Swaine […] which as I remember, hight Coſtard […]c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First...
Synonyms of hight
Forms of hight
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | hights |
| present participle | highting |
| past participle | hight |
| past | hight |
| alternative form | highte |
| Noun | |
| plural | hights |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Hights |
Origin of hight
From Middle English highten, variant of hoten (“to name, to be named”), from Old English hātan. The stem of the word was remodelled by analogy with the simple past form hight, from Old English hēht. Cognate with Scots hecht, Dutch heten, German heißen, etc.
See height
English topographic surname, from the noun height. Compare Haight.
Words formed from hight
Words that rhyme with hight
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- knight
- slight
- Dwight
- height
- sight
- night
- sprite
- fight
- parasite
- site
- alight
- smite
- all right
- blight
- might
- mite
- skite
- cite
- indite
- lite
- outright
- plight
- bight
- excite
- ignite
- invite
- overnight
- uptight
- wight
- accite
- alright
- benight
- bewrite
- blite
- copyright
- despite
- dight
- disunite
- finite
- flite
- incite
- recite
- relight
- rewrite
- sleight
- spite
- spright
- wite
Questions about hight
- What does hight mean?
- Hight means to call, name.
- What is hight in Persian?
- Hight in Persian is گفته شدن (gofte šodan). See Hight meaning in Persian.
- How do you use hight in a sentence?
- “Lord,” said Sir Launcelot, “I am hight Launcelot, and am surnamed ‘He of the Lake.’”
- What part of speech is hight?
- Hight can be a verb, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce hight?
- Hight is pronounced /haɪt/.
- What is the past tense of hight?
- The past tense of hight is hight.
Words near hight in the dictionary
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