Definitions for hight

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Spelling: [hahyt]

IPA: /haɪt/

Hight is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in hight (ghhit).

Definitions for hight

noun

1. height.
2. extent or distance upward:
3. distance upward from a given level to a fixed point:
4. the distance between the lowest and highest points of a person standing upright; stature:
5. considerable or great altitude or elevation:
6. Often, heights. a high place above a level; a hill or mountain: the highest part; top; apex; summit:
7. the highest point; utmost degree:
8. Archaic. high rank in social status.

adjective

1. Archaic. called or named:

Origin of hight

before 900; Middle English; Old English heht, reduplicated preterit of hātan to name, call, promise, command (cognate with German heissen to call, be called, mean); akin to Examples for hight

And so he labored till that they came to a city that hight Sarras.

Thus my kindred biddeth me say, and I hight p. 294Fork-beard of Lea.

The hight leaped is only limited by the possible length of pole carried.

In hurdle races, the hight of the hurdles when fixed to be 3ft.

Avoid 'fishy' mouths, too wide for their (the vases') hight.

Whichever may be the case the hight is corrected by the step-bearing screw.

And beside that church is a chapel, beside the rock that hight Gethsemane.

But "hight" was occasionally used with the common verbs "is," "was."

The finest yard we ever saw had not a tree on it that exceeded ten feet in hight.

The plant stood in an eight-inch pot, and measured four feet in hight.