heights

nounaltitude, top part
nounclimax; importance

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noun altitude, top part

Antonyms for heights

Word Origin & History

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.

Example Sentences for heights

If life held no heights for him, at least it held no depths.

It is so difficult to keep ‘heights that the soul is competent to gain.’

A sharp wind came down from the heights, and whistled about their ears.

On the "Heights" there was a great deal of talk about Andrew and Wiseli.

Had we got out, the plan was to seize the heights of the island, and get possession of the guns.

No longer would the earth be ruled from fair Valhalla's heights.

Some called to their fellows from the water's edge, and were answered from the heights above.

Sometimes it is a sighing wind from other heights, happier in that they are sweet with firs.

Soon he was in among the trees and out of sight of the patriot soldiers on the Heights.

That week he mortgaged our house on the Heights for five thousand dollars.

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