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Synonyms for heights

Grammar : Noun
Spell : hahyt
Phonetic Transcription : haɪt

Top 10 synonyms for heights
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Définition of heights

Origin :
  • Old English hiehþu, Anglian hehþo "highest part or point, summit; the heavens, heaven," from root of heah "high" (see high) + -itha, Germanic abstract noun suffix. Cf. Old Norse hæð, Middle Dutch hoochte, Old High German hohida, Gothic hauhiþa "height." Meaning "distance from bottom to top" is from late 13c. Meaning "excellence, high degree of a quality" is late 14c. The modern pronunciation with -t emerged 13c., but wasn't established till 19c., and heighth is still colloquial.
  • noun altitude, top part
  • noun climax; importance
Example sentences :
  • If life held no heights for him, at least it held no depths.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • It is so difficult to keep ‘heights that the soul is competent to gain.’
  • Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde
  • A sharp wind came down from the heights, and whistled about their ears.
  • Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri
  • On the "Heights" there was a great deal of talk about Andrew and Wiseli.
  • Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri
  • Had we got out, the plan was to seize the heights of the island, and get possession of the guns.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • No longer would the earth be ruled from fair Valhalla's heights.
  • Extract from : « Opera Stories from Wagner » by Florence Akin
  • Some called to their fellows from the water's edge, and were answered from the heights above.
  • Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Sometimes it is a sighing wind from other heights, happier in that they are sweet with firs.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • Soon he was in among the trees and out of sight of the patriot soldiers on the Heights.
  • Extract from : « The Dare Boys of 1776 » by Stephen Angus Cox
  • That week he mortgaged our house on the Heights for five thousand dollars.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole

Antonyms for heights

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