hight

[ hahyt ]

/ haɪt /

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adjective

Archaic. called or named: Childe Harold was he hight.

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Origin of hight

before 900; Middle English; Old English heht, reduplicated preterit of hātan to name, call, promise, command (cognate with German heissen to call, be called, mean); akin to behest

Words nearby hight

high stick, high-sticking, High Street, high-strung, high style, hight, high table, hightail, hightail it, High Tatra, high tea

Other definitions for hight (2 of 2)

hight²

[ hahyt ]

/ haɪt /

noun

height.

How to use hight in a sentence

Know ye that there is a maid journeyed hither, hight Robinson—whose—(in her natural voice) what's the old for aunt?
First Plays|A. A. Milne
And yet the Alps are little more than half the hight of the Andes, and not more than a hundredth part of their mass.
Gospel Philosophy|J. H. Ward
King Ogvald fought with that King who is hight Varin, & fell in the combat.
The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade)|Snorri Sturluson
The King asked of the man his name, and the latter said he was hight Hallfrod.
The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade)|Snorri Sturluson

Then caused the King his banner Land-waster to be borne aloft, and Fridrek was the man hight who bore the banner.
The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade)|Snorri Sturluson

British Dictionary definitions for hight

hight

/ (haɪt) /

verb

(tr; used only as a past tense in the passive or as a past participle) archaic, poetic to name; calla maid hight Mary

Word Origin for hight

Old English heht, from hatan to call; related to Old Norse heita, Old Frisian hēta, Old High German heizzan

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