/haɪt/
#2256 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
How tall or high something is, measured from bottom to top.
Word origin
From Old English hiehthu, from heah, meaning high.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- heah
- English cognates
- high
Grammar
Gender
Pluralheights
Examples
?
Height is the distance from the bottom to the top.
.
We use height to compare how tall people are.
.
Here height means a place high above the ground.
Used in
Stories
(1)Add to review queue
Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.
Go to my review queueThis word is part of lesson 46.