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hight
1[ hahyt ]
adjective
- Archaic. called or named:
Childe Harold was he hight.
hight
2[ hahyt ]
noun
hight
/ haɪt /
verb
- archaic.tr; used only as a past tense in the passive or as a past participle to name; call
a maid hight Mary
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Origin of hight1
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Example Sentences
Know ye that there is a maid journeyed hither, hight Robinson—whose—(in her natural voice) what's the old for aunt?
And yet the Alps are little more than half the hight of the Andes, and not more than a hundredth part of their mass.
King Ogvald fought with that King who is hight Varin, & fell in the combat.
The King asked of the man his name, and the latter said he was hight Hallfrod.
Then caused the King his banner Land-waster to be borne aloft, and Fridrek was the man hight who bore the banner.
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