Meaning

The distance from the base to the top of something..

Definitions by Sense

1. The distance from the base to the top of something.
2. The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level.
3. A high point.
4. (phonetics) 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.

Example Sentences

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.

We flew at a height of 15 000 meters.

I'm afraid of heights.

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.

Word Forms

• heights
• heighth
• heigth
• hight
• highth

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When Should You Use Height?

Use height when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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