What does higher mean?
Higher means comparative form of high: more high.
Higher
/ˈhaɪ.ə/ · adjective
Meaning
comparative form of high: more high.
Definitions by Sense
- comparative form of high: more high
- (Scotland, education) A national school-leaving examination and university entrance qualification.
- (transitive) To make higher; to raise or increase in amount or quantity.
- (intransitive) To ascend.
Example Sentences
It is a fact that other countries have not followed our example, nay, that they have in fact, in some cases, highered the duties upon the admission of our goods. But what has been the result of that policy upon the amount of your exports?
I am glad also that my hon. friend the Minister of Finance had the firmness to oppose all these influences to make him change his policy, and I hope, for the good of the country and the blessing of the Dominion, that when any change takes place it will be in the direction of lowering rather than of highering the tariff.
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Word Forms
- highers
- highering
- highered
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It is a fact that other countries have not followed our example, nay, that they have in fact, in some cases, highered the duties upon the admission of our goods. But what has been the result of that policy upon the amount of your exports?
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