Definitions for heights

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heights height

Spelling: [hahyt]

IPA: /haɪt/

Heights is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 117 anagrams from letters in heights (eghhist).

Definitions for heights

noun

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

Origin of heights

before 900; Middle English; Old English hīehtho. See high, -th¹

Examples for heights

height above the sea, of the Pass, 1458 feet;—of this camp, 1256 feet.

In front of Judge Gould's office the combat was at its height.

This is a Hollywood director at the height of his powers creating original, wildly ambitious epics.

At the height of the Soviet Union, the proletariat universally understood everything their government said was a work of fiction.

Recipients in a cryobank can peruse donor files and see hair color, eye color, race, height, IQ, and so on.

From the height of 700 feet, a lush uniform green obscured the destruction unfolding below him.

From the height of this place and the summit of this century, let us go forth.

During the height of his disenchantment, he visited his hometown where an old friend gave him some liquid acid.

Which of you by being over-anxious can add a single foot to his height?

There is no height to which you may not fairly rise in this country.