hight

¹ American  

[hahyt] / haɪt /

adjective

1. Archaic. called or named.

   Childe Harold was he hight.

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hight ² American  

[hahyt] / haɪt /

noun

1. height.

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hight British  

/ haɪt /

verb

1. 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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Etymology

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

Example Sentences

“Texas is the only state whose flag can fly at the same hight as US flag,” says one Facebook post, misspelling height, and featuring images of the Texas and U.S. flags side by side.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 25, 2022

Johansen answered 34 seconds later, skating around Jets defenseman Toby Enstrom and beating Hellebuyck hight.

From Washington Times • Apr. 29, 2018

My oldest grandson graduates hight school next year and hopes to be able to afford college.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2016

Harris tweed piled hight in Catherine Campbell's Harris Tweed Company shop and warehouse in Tarbert, on the isle of Harris, Scotland.

From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2012

Trees with wide-spreading branches, and of medium hight, or from forty to fifty feet, but in deep forests sometimes sixty to seventy, with stems two to three feet in diameter.

From The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States by Fuller, Andrew S.