height
//haɪt//
Forms
- Plural
- heights
Definitions
1.The distance from the base to the top of something.
- The area of a triangle is "a half base times height".
2.The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level.
- We flew at a height of 15 000 meters.
3.A high point.
- She's at the height of her career.
- At length they arrived at the open road, skirted by a wide heath, bounded by the rising heights of the undulating country.
- 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.
4.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.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2290
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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