different between disdain vs hauteur

English

Etymology

From Middle English disdeynen, from Old French desdeignier (modern French dédaigner).

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?s-d?n', IPA^(key): /d?s?de?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

disdain (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) A feeling of contempt or scorn.
   • 2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, "Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification," Telegraph (UK) (retrieved 24 June 2018):

     Everything that could go right for England did although they never felt lucky and they chuckled at Kane’s third that ricocheted off his heel while he was looking the other way. Somewhere in the Moscow outskirts one could only guess at the grand disdain Cristiano Ronaldo will have felt at being supplanted as the tournament’s top scorer in that manner.
2. (obsolete) That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
3. (obsolete) The state of being despised; shame.

Synonyms

• abomination
• condescension
• contempt
• despisal
• scorn
• See also Thesaurus:contempt

Antonyms

• adoration
• admiration
• honor
• respect
• reverence

Derived terms

• disdainable
• disdainful

Translations

Verb

disdain (third-person singular simple present disdains, present participle disdaining, simple past and past participle disdained)

1. (transitive) To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.

   • When the Philistine […] saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth.

   • 1880, Edward Henry Palmer (translator), The Qur'an, 1880, "Women", verse 170

     The Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, is but the apostle of God and His Word, […] The Messiah doth surely not disdain to be a servant of God, nor do the angels who are nigh to Him; and whosoever disdains His service and is too proud, He will gather them altogether to Himself. But as for those who believe and do what is right, He will pay their hire and will give increase to them of His grace. But as for those who disdain and are too proud, He will punish them with a grievous woe, and they shall not find for them other than God a patron or a help.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be indignant or offended.
   • 1526, William Tyndale (translator), Bible, Matthew XXI:

     When the chefe prestes and scribes sawe, the marveylles that he dyd [...], they desdayned, and sayde unto hym: hearest thou what these saye?

Synonyms

• abominate
• contemn
• See also Thesaurus:despise

Antonyms

• adore
• admire
• honor
• respect
• revere

Translations

Anagrams

• naidids

English

Etymology

From French hauteur.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /o??t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???t??/, /???t??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: auteur

Noun

hauteur (countable and uncountable, plural hauteurs)

1. Haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing chapter XII

     “What's happened, young Herring?” I think for a moment he was about to draw himself up with hauteur and say he would prefer, if we didn't mind, not to discuss his private affairs, but when he was half-way up he caught Aunt Dahlia's eye and returned to position one.

   • 1992, Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 31

     […] as, indeed, a new subject presented itself now, "Here's our turn!" braking the Toyota and turning the wheel sharply without having had time to signal so, close behind them, an angered motorist sounded his horn, but The Senator took no heed: not out of arrogance or hauteur but, simply, because he took no heed.

French

Etymology

haut +? -eur

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /o.tœ?/
• Rhymes: -œ?
• Homophones: auteur, auteurs, hauteurs

Noun

hauteur f (plural hauteurs)

1. height, altitude

   La hauteur du Mont Everest est de 8.848 mètres.

2. arrogance
3. (geometry) height

   La hauteur d'un parallélogramme est perpendiculaire à sa base.

4. (music) pitch

Derived terms

• à hauteur de
• à la hauteur de
• être à la hauteur
• prendre de la hauteur
• saut en hauteur
• sauteur en hauteur

Related terms

• haut

Further reading

• “hauteur” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).