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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kewk-

Proto-Indo-European *kówk-o-s

Proto-Germanic *hauhaz

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂der.

Proto-Germanic *-iþō

Proto-Germanic *hauhiþō

Proto-West Germanic *hauhiþu

Old English hīehþu

Middle English heighte

English height

See also Saterland Frisian Höchte, Hööchte (“height”), West Frisian hichte (“height”), Dutch hoogte (“height”), Middle High German hœhede, hœhte (“height”), Old Norse hæð (“height”) (compare Swedish höjd, Norwegian høyde), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌹𐌸𐌰 (hauhiþa, “height”).

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The distance from the base to the top of something.
Synonym: stature
- 1942, Robert Frost, “Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length”, in A Witness Tree, New York: Henry Hold and Company, published 1943, page 15:
  Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length [title of poem]
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- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
  He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […] , the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
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1. The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).
  — What's your height? — 180 centimetres.Category:English terms with usage examples#HEIGHT
2. (geometry Category:en:Geometry#HEIGHT) The minimum distance from a vertex of a triangle to (the extension of) the edge opposite, namely along a line perpendicular to the edge.
  Synonym: altitude
  
  The area of a triangle is "a half base times height".Category:English terms with usage examples#HEIGHT
3. (mathematics Category:en:Mathematics#HEIGHT) The amplitude of a sinusoid.
The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level.
Synonym: altitude

Antonym: depth

We flew at a height of 15 000 meters.Category:English terms with usage examples#HEIGHT

I'm afraid of heights.Category:English terms with usage examples#HEIGHT
A high point.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 37:
  At length they arrived at the open road, skirted by a wide heath, bounded by the rising heights of the undulating country.
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- 2020 March 17, Fiona Harvey, “Pine tree near flooded Czech village voted European tree of the year”, in The Guardian‎:
  The Guardian of the Flooded Village has grown for 350 years on a rocky height near the village of Chudobin, said locally to play host to a devil that sat under it at night, playing the violin and warding off intruders – though in reality the eerie sounds are more likely to have come from the strong winds blowing over the valley.
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1. (figurative) The highest point or maximum degree.
  Synonyms: see Thesaurus:apex
  
  She's at the height of her career.Category:English terms with usage examples#HEIGHT
  - c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
    […] They clip vs drunkards, and with Swiniſh phraſe / Soyle our addition, and indeede it takes / From our atchieuements, though perform’d at height / The pith and marrow of our attribute […]
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  - 2004, Peter Bondanella, chapter 4, in Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos, pages 173–174:
    During the height of Italian immigration in the United States and in New York City, gangs flourished not only because of poverty but also because of political and social corruption. Policemen and politicians were often as crooked as the gang leaders themselves.
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  - 2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport‎:
    If City never quite reached the heights of their 6-1 demolition of United, then Roberto Mancini's side should still have had this game safe long before Johnson restored their two-goal advantage.
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  - 2022 July 18, Evan Osnos, “The Haves and the Have-Yachts”, in The New Yorker‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 July 2022:
    In the nineteen-fifties, the height of aspirational style was fine French furniture—F.F.F., as it became known in certain precincts of Fifth Avenue and Palm Beach.
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2. A mountain, especially a very high one.
3. (Sussex Category:Sussex English#HEIGHT) An area of land at the top of a cliff.
(phonetics Category:en:Phonetics#HEIGHT) A quality of vowels, indicating the vertical position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth; in practice, the first formant, associated with the height of the tongue.
Coordinate terms: (horizontal dimension) backness, (lip articulation) roundedness, length, nasalization, reduction