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Your Highness

Your Highness pronoun: a title of respect used to address a prince or princess.

Pronoun

Your Highness (plural Your Highnesses)

  1. (formal) A title of respect used to address a prince or princess.
    • Does your Highness know what became of the other ?1818, “The Congo Expedition—African Discoveries”, in The Quarterly Review, J. Murray, page 372
    • “Yes, madame, since your Highness has deigned to begin, will you deign to finish—”1998, Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask, →ISBN, page 83
  2. (informal, sarcastic) A sarcastic term of address to anyone who is (or is acting) pompous or bossy.
  3. (historical) A title of respect used to the Lord Protector during the English Republic.

Your Highness meaning in Urdu, Odia, Arabic and Vietnamese

Your Highness in Urdu

حضور عالی

Your Highness in Odia

Your Highness, Your Majesty, Your Honour
ମହାରାଜ mahārāja

Your Highness in Arabic

a title of respect used to address a prince or princess
سُمُوُّكَ sumuwwuka, سُمُوُّكِ sumuwwuki

Your Highness in Vietnamese

a title of respect used to address a prince or princess
điện hạ

Forms of Your Highness

pluralYour Highnesses

Words formed from Your Highness

Questions about Your Highness

What does Your Highness mean?
Your Highness means a title of respect used to address a prince or princess.
What is Your Highness in Urdu?
Your Highness in Urdu is حضور عالی. See Your Highness meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is Your Highness?
Your Highness is a pronoun.

Words near Your Highness in the dictionary

  1. your graces
  2. your guess is as good as mine
  3. your guys'
  4. your guys's
  5. your head
  6. Your Highness
  7. Your Highnessness
  8. Your Holiness
  9. Your Honor
  10. Your Honors
  11. Your Honour

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Your Highness (page history and authors); Your Highness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ମହାରାଜ (Odia) (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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