English Online Dictionary. What means higher? What does higher mean?
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hīr, hīʹər, IPA(key): /haɪə/, /ˈhaɪ.ə/
- (General American) enPR: hīr, hīʹər, IPA(key): /haɪɹ/, /ˈhaɪ.ɚ/
- Homophone: hire
- Hyphenation: high‧er
- Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Adjective
higher
- comparative form of high: more high
Adverb
higher
- comparative form of high: more high
Noun
higher (plural highers)
- (Scotland, education) A national school-leaving examination and university entrance qualification.
Verb
higher (third-person singular simple present highers, present participle highering, simple past and past participle highered)
- (transitive) To make higher; to raise or increase in amount or quantity.
- (intransitive) To ascend.
Derived terms
References
- “higher”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.