height

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English

Alternative forms

• hight, highth, heighth (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English heighte, heiȝþe, from Old English hēahþu, hēhþo, hīehþu (“height”), Proto-West Germanic *hauhiþu, from Proto-Germanic *hauhiþō (compare *hauhaz). Equivalent to high +‎ -th.

Pronunciation

• enPR: hīt, IPA^(key): /haɪt/
• (obsolete) enPR: hāt, IPA^(key): /heɪt/
• Rhymes: -aɪt
• Homophone: hight
• Hyphenation: height

Noun

height (countable and uncountable, plural heights)

1. The distance from the base to the top of something.
   1. The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).

   2. (geometry) The minimum distance from a vertex of a triangle to (the extension of) the edge opposite, namely along a line perpendicular to the edge.

      Synonym: altitude

   3. (mathematics) The amplitude of a sinusoid.
2. The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level.

   Synonym: altitude

   Antonym: depth

3. A high point.
   1. (figurative) The highest point or maximum degree.

      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:apex

   2. A mountain, especially a very high one.
   3. (Sussex) An area of land at the top of a cliff.
4. (phonetics) A quality of vowels, indicating the vertical position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth; in practice, the first formant, associated with the height of the tongue.

   Coordinate terms: (horizontal dimension) backness, (lip articulation) roundedness, length, nasalization, reduction

Derived terms

Related terms

• high

Translations

References

Further reading

• height on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Highet, eighth, highte