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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?, IPA^(key): /ha?/, [ha??]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ha?/, [ha??]
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophones: hi, Hi, hie

Etymology 1

From Middle English high, heigh, heih, from Old English h?ah (“high, tall, lofty, high-class, exalted, sublime, illustrious, important, proud, haughty, deep, right”), from Proto-West Germanic *hauh (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (“high”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk- (“to bend, curve, arch, vault”), a suffixed form of *kew-.

Cognate with Scots heich (“high”), Saterland Frisian hooch (“high”), West Frisian heech (“high”), Dutch hoog (“high”), Low German hoog (“high”), German hoch (“high”), Swedish hög (“high”), Norwegian høy (“high”), Icelandic hár (“high”), Lithuanian kaukas (“bump, boil, sore”), Russian ????? (kú?a, “pile, heap, stack, lump”).

Alternative forms

• hi (informal)

Adjective

high (comparative higher, superlative highest)

1. Elevated, extending above a base or average level:
   1. Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
   2. Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
      • 1919, Martha Van Rensselaer, Flora Rose, Helen Canon, A Manual of Home-Making, page 376:

        A nightgown with a high neck and long sleeves may have the fullness set into a yoke.

   3. (baseball, of a ball) Above the batter's shoulders.

      the pitch (or: the ball) was high

   4. Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a greater elevation, for example more mountainous, than other regions.
2. Having a specified elevation or height; tall.

   three feet high   three Mount Everests high
3. Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.

   The oldest of the elves' royal family still conversed in High Elvish.

   • 1855-57, Charles Dickens Little Dorrit

     The Barnacles were a very high family, and a very large family. They were dispersed all over the public offices, and held all sorts of public places.

   1. Most exalted; foremost.

      the high priest, the high officials of the court, the high altar

   2. Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).

      high crimes, the high festival of the sun

   3. Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality in its supreme degree, at its zenith.

      high (i.e. intense) heat; high (i.e. full or quite) noon; high (i.e. rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i.e. complete) pleasure; high (i.e. deep or vivid) colour; high (i.e. extensive, thorough) scholarship; high tide; high [tourism] season; the High Middle Ages

      • High time it is this war now ended were.

      • 1709-1710, Thomas Baker, Reflections on Learning

        High sauces and rich spices are fetch'd from the Indies.

   4. Advanced in complexity (and hence potentially abstract and/or difficult to comprehend).
      • 1802, William Wordsworth, England 1802

        Plain living and high thinking are no more.

4. (in several set phrases) Remote in distance or time.

   high latitude, high antiquity

   • 2007, Sheila Finch, Shaper's Legacy ?ISBN, page 122

     Not a one of them was old enough to know what the high past of Liani separatism had really been like.

5. (in several set phrases) Very traditionalist and conservative, especially in favoring older ways of doing things; see e.g. high church, High Tory.
   • 1858, Joseph Howe, Speeches and Public Letters, page 346:

     The letter of a "Pioneer" was sent to the Chronicle office by a very respectable man, of a high conservative family, but whose interests have been injuriously affected by the constant fluctuations in the commercial policy of England.

   • 1861 (printed 2003), Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Regnery Publishing (?ISBN)

     His family was ardently royalist, and might be compared to a high Tory family on this side the water; with some change of conditions, their prejudices and disposition of the mind were the same.

   • 2005, Jesse D. Geller, John C. Norcross, David E. Orlinsky, The Psychotherapist's Own Psychotherapy, Oxford University Press (?ISBN), page 69:

     My father was the youngest son of a High-Church and high Tory family, the politically leftwing and religiously Nonconformist rebel; and antiimperialist who nearly lost his position in the City by refusing to sign his firm's pro–Boer War petition.

6. Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.

   in high spirits

   • 1970, Grateful Dead, High Time, on the album Workingman's Dead

     I was having a high time, living the good life.

7. (of a lifestyle) Luxurious; rich.

   high living, the high life

   • 2010, Rose Maria McCarthy Anding. High Heels, Honey Lips, & White Powder

     I was living the high lifestyle in famous sex clubs, relaxing on luxurious sofas, in the saunas and whirlpools, enjoying moments of excitement with my male and female companions while sipping champagne from crystal glasses.

8. Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.

   a high tone

   • An high look and a proud heart […] is sin.

   • His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot.

9. (with "on" or "about") Keen, enthused.
   • 2010, Lena, quoted by S. Rosenbloom, The Multiracial Urban High School: Fearing Peers and Trusting Friends (?ISBN), chapter four:

     I'm not that high about the relationship.

10. (of a body of water) With tall waves.
11. Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).

    • Can heavenly minds such high resentment show?
    1. Having a large or comparatively larger concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).

    • 1907, The American Exporter, volume 60, page 101:

      Anyone can determine for himself whether certain wire is high carbon or not. Heat a piece of the wire red hot and while red plunge into water till cold.

12. (acoustics) Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).

13. (phonetics) Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
14. (card games) Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
    1. (poker) Having the highest rank in a straight, flush or straight flush.

       I have KT742 of the same suit. In other words, a K-high flush.

       9-high straight = 98765 unsuited

       Royal Flush = AKQJT suited = A-high straight flush

    2. (of a card or hand) Winning; able to take a trick, win a round, etc.

       North's hand was high. East was in trouble.

       • 1894, Harper's Magazine, volume 88, page 910:

         Cutler pushed forward the two necessary white chips. No one's hand was high, and Loomis made a slight winning.

15. (of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.

    Epicures do not cook game before it is high.
16. (informal) Intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.
17. (nautical, of a sailing ship) Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.

Synonyms

• haute, hawt
• (elevated): See Thesaurus:tall
• (intoxicated): See Thesaurus:stoned or Thesaurus:drunk

Antonyms

• low

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Pages starting with “high”.

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: hei

Translations

See also

• mighty

Adverb

high (comparative higher, superlative highest)

1. In or to an elevated position.

   How high above land did you fly?

2. In or at a great value.

   Costs have grown higher this year again.

3. At a pitch of great frequency.

   I certainly can't sing that high.

Usage notes

• The adverb high and the adverb highly should not be confused.

  He hung the picture high on the wall.

  As a politician, he isn't esteemed too highly.

Translations

References

• Yuri Dolgopolov, A Dictionary of Confusable Phrases: More Than 10,000 Idioms (2016, ?ISBN): "high on something"

Noun

high (plural highs)

1. A high point or position, literally (as, an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven).or figuratively (as, a point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best, greatest, most numerous, maximum, etc).

   It was one of the highs of his career.

   Inflation reached a ten-year high.

   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     South Korea has reached a new high in a kind of air pollution measured in fine dust.

   1. The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.

      Today's high was 32 °C.

2. A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
   • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic climbs highest to sink Benfica (in The Guardian, 15 May 2013)[3]

     They will have to reflect on a seventh successive defeat in a European final while Chelsea try to make sense of an eccentric season rife with controversy and bad feeling but once again one finishing on an exhilarating high.

3. A drug that gives such a high.
4. (meteorology, informal) A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.

   A large high is centred on the Azores.

5. (card games) The highest card dealt or drawn.

Translations

See also

• crash

Verb

high (third-person singular simple present highs, present participle highing, simple past and past participle highed)

1. (obsolete) To rise.

   The sun higheth.

Etymology 2

From Middle English hi?e, hu?e, hui?e, huie, hige, from Old English hy?e (“thought, mind, heart, disposition, intention, courage, pride”), from Proto-West Germanic *hugi, from Proto-Germanic *hugiz (“mind, sense”), of unknown origin. Cognate with North Frisian huwggje (“mind, sense”), Middle Low German höge, hoge (“thought, meaning, mood, happiness”), Middle High German hüge, huge, hoge (“mind, spirit, memory”), Danish hu (“mind”), Swedish håg (“mind, inclination”), Icelandic hugur (“mind”). Related to Hugh.

Noun

high (plural highs)

1. (obsolete)
2. Thought; intention; determination; purpose.

Etymology 3

See hie.

Verb

high (third-person singular simple present highs, present participle highing, simple past and past participle highed)

2. To hie; to hasten.

Anagrams

• GHIH

English

Etymology

From Middle English aloud, a loude (“aloud”), equivalent to a- +? loud or a- +? loude (“sound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??la?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d
• Homophone: allowed
• Hyphenation: aloud

Adverb

aloud (not comparable)

1. With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.
2. Audibly, as opposed to silently/quietly.

Translations

Adjective

aloud (not comparable)

1. Spoken out loud.

Anagrams

• doula, doúla

Dutch

Alternative forms

• aaloud (obsolete)

Etymology

Compound of al +? oud.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l.?u?t/, /?l??u?t/
• Hyphenation: al?oud

Adjective

aloud (not comparable)

1. ancient, time-honoured, from time immemorial
   • 2007, Paul Rutten, Digitalisering en dynamiek. Over de consequenties van de digitale revolutie voor de media-industrie, in het bijzonder de uitgeverij. Rede uitgesproken bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van hoogleraar Digitale Mediastudies aan de Universiteit Leiden op vrijdag 29 september 2006, Amsterdam University Press, page 10.

Inflection

Derived terms

• aloudheid