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Heights   /haɪts/   Listen
Heights

noun
1.
A high place.  Synonym: high.  "He doesn't like heights"



Height

noun
(Written also hight)
1.
The vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top.  Synonym: tallness.
2.
The highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development.  Synonyms: acme, elevation, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top.  "The artist's gifts are at their acme" , "At the height of her career" , "The peak of perfection" , "Summer was at its peak" , "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame" , "The summit of his ambition" , "So many highest superlatives achieved by man" , "At the top of his profession"
3.
(of a standing person) the distance from head to foot.  Synonym: stature.
4.
Elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface.  Synonym: altitude.



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"Heights" Quotes from Famous Books



... ballonets are not provided for the gasbags, and as a consequence a long flight results in a considerable expenditure of gas. If great heights are required to be reached, it is obvious that the wastage of gas would be enormous, and it is understood that the Germans on starting for a raid on England, where the highest altitudes were necessary, commenced the ...
— British Airships, Past, Present, and Future • George Whale

... in his emancipation movement at Baltimore. He performed the long journey on foot, with staff in hand in true apostolic fashion. The two men of God met among the mountains of Vermont, and when the elder returned from the heights the younger had resolved to follow him to the vales where men needed his help, the utmost which he could give them. He agreed to join his friend in Baltimore and there edit with him his little paper with the grand name (The Genius of Universal Emancipation), ...
— William Lloyd Garrison - The Abolitionist • Archibald H. Grimke

... pouring down like a stream from the heights —one division under Archbishop Oppas, the ...
— Historical Miniatures • August Strindberg

... whom variety delights, Descend awhile from Windsor's heights, And in this hovel deign to tread, Quitting the castle for the shed; Such were the muse's favourite haunts, From care secluded and from wants. What nature needs this but can give, Could we as nature dictates live; For see, on this ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 17, - Issue 495, June 25, 1831 • Various

... first words to the beginning of dangerous heights, and his pulses gave a wild throb when he glanced up at her and saw a light in her face, in her eyes, in her whole attitude, that he had never surprised there before. Words, unuttered, leaped hotly from his heart; a mad desire to tell ...
— The Plunderer • Roy Norton


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