height
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geometry
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kewk-
Proto-Indo-European *kówk-o-s
Proto-Germanic *hauhaz
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂der.
Proto-Germanic *-iþō
Proto-Germanic *hauhiþō
Proto-West Germanic *hauhiþu
Old English hīehþu
Middle English heighte
English height
From Middle English heighte, heiȝþe, from Old English hēahþu, hēhþo, hīehþu (“height”), Proto-West Germanic *hauhiþu, from Proto-Germanic *hauhiþō (compare *hauhaz). Equivalent to high + -t (abstract nominal suffix). The regular pronunciation is now obsolete /heɪt/ (as with other words in -eight); the modern form developed early on, at first as a variant, by analogy with the underlying adjective.
Cognates
See also Saterland Frisian Höchte, Hööchte (“height”), West Frisian hichte (“height”), Dutch hoogte (“height”), Middle High German hœhede, hœhte (“height”), Old Norse hæð (“height”) (compare Swedish höjd, Norwegian høyde), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌹𐌸𐌰 (hauhiþa, “height”).
Base: high
Affixes: -t
Inflected forms:
form: heights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: heighth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: heigth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: hight
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: highth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The distance from the base to the top of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length [title of poem]
He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
gloss: The distance from the base to the top of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: — What's your height? — 180 centimetres.
gloss: The distance from the base to the top of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The area of a triangle is "a half base times height".
gloss: The distance from the base to the top of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We flew at a height of 15 000 meters.
I'm afraid of heights.
gloss: A high point.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: At length they arrived at the open road, skirted by a wide heath, bounded by the rising heights of the undulating country.
The Guardian of the Flooded Village has grown for 350 years on a rocky height near the village of Chudobin, said locally to play host to a devil that sat under it at night, playing the violin and warding off intruders – though in reality the eerie sounds are more likely to have come from the strong winds blowing over the valley.
gloss: A high point.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: She's at the height of her career.
[…]They clip vs drunkards, and with Swiniſh phraſe / Soyle our addition, and indeede it takes / From our atchieuements, though perform’d at height / The pith and marrow of our attribute[…]
Leo, then at the height of his pontificate, despatched a letter to Cerularius demanding that the Patriarch should recognize the supremacy of the popes, and branding any church that refused such recognition as “an assembly of heretics, a conventicle of schismatics, a synagogue of Satan.”⁷⁶
During the height of Italian immigration in the United States and in New York City, gangs flourished not only because of poverty but also because of political and social corruption. Policemen and politicians were often as crooked as the gang leaders themselves.
If City never quite reached the heights of their 6-1 demolition of United, then Roberto Mancini's side should still have had this game safe long before Johnson restored their two-goal advantage.
In the nineteen-fifties, the height of aspirational style was fine French furniture—F.F.F., as it became known in certain precincts of Fifth Avenue and Palm Beach.
gloss: A high point.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A high point.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A quality of vowels, indicating the vertical position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth; in practice, the first formant, associated with the height of the tongue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: high
Derived words: aheight
Chicago Heights
Cleveland Heights
coheight
commanding heights
Cornwells Heights
decision height
drying height
find your height
geopotential height
height above average terrain
heighten
heightfield
heighthon
heightism
heightist
heightless
heightmap
height money
height to paper
heightwise
Irlams o' th' Height
isoheight
legal height
line-height
metacentric height
midheight
no-height
overheight
piss on from a great height
ride height
Ryland Heights
scale height
significant wave height
slant height
star height
up a height
Valley Heights
vanity height
Weymouth Heights
x-height
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: lartësi
lang: Southern Altai
word: бийик
roman: biyik
lang: Amharic
word: ከፍታ
roman: käfta
lang: Arabic
word: اِرْتِفَاع
roman: irtifāʕ
lang: Arabic
word: ارتفاع
roman: ertefaʕ
lang: Armenian
word: բարձրություն
roman: barjrutʻyun
lang: Assamese
word: উচ্চতা
roman: ussota
lang: Azerbaijani
word: ucalıq
lang: Azerbaijani
word: hündürlük
lang: Azerbaijani
word: yüksəklik
lang: Bashkir
word: бейеклек
roman: beyeklek
lang: Belarusian
word: вышыня́
roman: vyšynjá
lang: Belarusian
word: высачыня́
roman: vysačynjá
lang: Bengali
word: উচ্চতা
roman: uccota
lang: Bulgarian
word: височина́
roman: visočiná
lang: Burmese
word: အမြင့်
roman: a.mrang.
lang: Burmese
word: စောက်
roman: cauk
lang: Catalan
word: altura
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎢᎦᏘ
roman: igati
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 高低
roman: gāodī
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 高度
roman: gāodù
lang: Czech
word: výška
lang: Danish
word: højde
lang: Dutch
word: hoogte
lang: Esperanto
word: alteco
lang: Esperanto
word: alto
lang: Estonian
word: kõrgus
lang: Ewe
word: kɔkɔme
lang: Finnish
word: korkeus
lang: French
word: hauteur
lang: Friulian
word: altece
lang: Galician
word: altura
lang: Georgian
word: სიმაღლე
roman: simaɣle
lang: German
word: Höhe
lang: German
word: Hööchi
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌴𐌹
roman: hauhei
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌹𐌸𐌰
roman: hauhiþa
lang: Greek
word: ύψος
roman: ýpsos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ὕψος
roman: húpsos
lang: Gujarati
word: ઊંચાઈ
roman: ū̃cāī
lang: Haitian Creole
word: wotè
lang: Hanunoo
word: abuwat
lang: Hebrew
word: גֹּבַהּ
roman: góvah
lang: Hindi
word: ऊंचाई
roman: ūñcāī
lang: Hungarian
word: magasság
lang: Icelandic
word: hæð
lang: Italian
word: altezza
lang: Japanese
word: 高さ
roman: takasa
lang: Japanese
word: 高度
roman: kōdo
lang: Kazakh
word: биіктік
roman: biıktık
lang: Khmer
word: កំពស់
roman: kɑmpŭəh
lang: Korean
word: 높이
roman: nopi
lang: Korean
word: 고도
roman: godo
lang: Central Kurdish
word: بەرزی
roman: berzî
lang: Kyrgyz
word: бийиктик
roman: biyiktik
lang: Lao
word: ຄວາມສຸງ
roman: khuām sung
lang: Latgalian
word: augstums
lang: Latin
word: altitūdō
lang: Latin
word: proceritas
lang: Latvian
word: augstums
lang: Lithuanian
word: aukštis
lang: Lithuanian
word: aukštumas
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Héicht
lang: Macedonian
word: висина
roman: visina
lang: Macedonian
word: височина
roman: visočina
lang: Malay
word: ketinggian
lang: Malayalam
word: ഉയരം
roman: uyaraṁ
lang: Māori
word: tiketike
lang: Maranao
word: tas
lang: Marathi
word: उंची
roman: uñcī
lang: Mauritian Creole
word: oter
lang: Mongolian
word: өндөр
roman: öndör
lang: Norman
word: haûteu
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: høyde
lang: Oromo
word: hojjaa
lang: Persian
word: بلندی
roman: bolandi
lang: Persian
word: ارتفاع
roman: ertefâ'
lang: Polish
word: wysokość
lang: Portuguese
word: altura
lang: Romanian
word: înălţime
lang: Russian
word: высота́
roman: vysotá
lang: Russian
word: вышина́
roman: vyšiná
lang: Skolt-Sami
word: õllivuõtt
lang: Sanskrit
word: ऊर्ध्व
roman: ūrdhva
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: висина
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: visina
lang: Slovak
word: výška
lang: Slovene
word: višina
lang: Somali
word: kor
lang: Somali
word: sare
lang: Spanish
word: altura
lang: Spanish
word: altor
lang: Spanish
word: alteza
lang: Swedish
word: höjd
lang: Swedish
word: längd
lang: Tagalog
word: taas
lang: Tajik
word: баландӣ
roman: balandi
lang: Tausug
word: tas
lang: Telugu
word: పొడుగు
roman: poḍugu
lang: Telugu
word: ఎత్తు
roman: ettu
lang: Telugu
word: ఉన్నతము
roman: unnatamu
lang: Thai
word: ความสูง
roman: kwaam-sǔung
lang: Thai
word: ส่วนสูง
roman: sùuan-sǔung
lang: Turkish
word: yükseklik
lang: Turkish
word: boy
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: یوكسكلك
roman: yükseklik
lang: Turkmen
word: beýiklik
lang: Ukrainian
word: висота́
roman: vysotá
lang: Ukrainian
word: височина́
roman: vysočyná
lang: Ukrainian
word: висо́кість
roman: vysókistʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: височі́нь
roman: vysočínʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: вишина́
roman: vyšyná
lang: Urdu
word: اونچائی
roman: ūncāī
lang: Uyghur
word: ئېگىزلىك
roman: ëgizlik
lang: Uzbek
word: balandlik
lang: Uzbek
word: yuksaklik
lang: Venetan
word: altézsa
lang: Vietnamese
word: độ cao
lang: Vietnamese
word: cao
lang: Welsh
word: uchder
lang: Yiddish
word: הייך
roman: heykh
lang: Zazaki
word: berzey (diq)
lang: Zulu
word: ubude