hight
1[hahyt]
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adjective
Archaic. called or named: Childe Harold was he hight.
Origin of hight
1before 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
hight
2[hahyt]
noun
height
or hight
[hahyt]
noun
Origin of height
Synonyms for height
3. tallness. Height, altitude, elevation refer to distance above a level. Height denotes extent upward (as from foot to head) as well as any measurable distance above a given level: The tree grew to a height of ten feet. They looked down from a great height. Altitude usually refers to the distance, determined by instruments, above a given level, commonly mean sea level: altitude of an airplane. Elevation implies a distance to which something has been raised or uplifted above a level: a hill's elevation above the surrounding country, above sea level. 5. prominence. 6. peak, pinnacle; acme, zenith; culmination.
Antonyms for height
1, 2. depth.
Usage note
Height, and not heighth, is considered the standard English form for this word.
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Examples from the Web for hight
Historical Examples of hight
Avoid 'fishy' mouths, too wide for their (the vases') hight.
Whichever may be the case the hight is corrected by the step-bearing screw.
Steam TurbinesHubert E. Collins
The finest yard we ever saw had not a tree on it that exceeded ten feet in hight.
Your PlantsJames Sheehan
The plant stood in an eight-inch pot, and measured four feet in hight.
Your PlantsJames Sheehan
But "hight" was occasionally used with the common verbs "is," "was."
The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2George Gordon Byron
hight
verb
Word Origin for hight
Old English heht, from hatan to call; related to Old Norse heita, Old Frisian hēta, Old High German heizzan
height
noun
Word Origin for height
Old English hīehthu; related to Old Norse hǣthe, Gothic hauhitha, Old High German hōhida; see high
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height
[hīt]
n.
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