higher

English Online Dictionary. What means higher‎? What does higher mean?

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: hīʹər
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪ.ə/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪ.ɚ/
  • (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈhajːa(ɾ)/

• enPR: hīr
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /haɪə/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /haɪɹ/

• Homophone: hire (some speakers)
• Hyphenation: high‧er
• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

Adjective

higher

1. comparative form of high: more high

Adverb

higher

1. comparative form of high: more high

Noun

higher (plural highers)

1. (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)

1. (transitive) To make higher; to raise or increase in amount or quantity.
2. (intransitive) To ascend.

Derived terms

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “higher”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.