height

noun

ˈhīt How to pronounce height (audio)
Definition of heightnext
1
as in zenith
the highest part or point many regard the painting of the Sistine Chapel as the height of Michelangelo's career

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as in depth
the most extreme or advanced point the student's defiant use of a cell phone during class was regarded by the professor as the height of insolence

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as in elevation
the distance of something or someone from bottom to top the average height of the players on the volleyball team is well over six feet

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as in hill
an area of high ground Gulliver, standing on a height near the shore, saw an island suspended above the sea

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as in midst
the most intense or characteristic phase of something at the very height of the storm, someone knocked on the door

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How does the noun height contrast with its synonyms?

The words altitude and elevation are common synonyms of height. While all three words mean "vertical distance either between the top and bottom of something or between a base and something above it," height refers to something measured vertically whether high or low.

a wall two meters in height

How do altitude and elevation relate to one another, in the sense of height?

Both altitude and elevation apply to height as measured by angular measurement or atmospheric pressure; altitude is preferable when referring to vertical distance above the surface of the earth or above sea level; elevation is used especially in reference to vertical height on land.

fly at an altitude of 10,000 meters
Denver is a city with a high elevation

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Recent Examples of height If Smith can’t reach that height, then the Alvarado and McConnell comparisons are more apt, and both of those two players are combative and successful defensive players. — Tony East, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026 Larger wind turbines require cranes to handle heavier components at greater heights. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026 Directed by Yan Lanouette Turgeon, the film stars Remi Goulet as the F1 car legend and charts his ascent to the dizzying heights of elite car racing, well before Villeneuve’s tragic death at Zolder in 1982. — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2026 None of them matter, not to a president who has taken self-interest to new heights. — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 28 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for height
Recent Examples of Synonyms for height
  1. zenith
  2. depth
  3. elevation
  4. hill
  5. midst
  6. pinnacle
  7. limit
  8. altitude
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  • If you were forced to pick the moment the Los Angeles romance with itself reached a zenith — and before things all went so wrong — the sunny morning of April 25, 2017, might be a good choice.
    — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Around the time the body was disposed of, Lake Mead was nearing its zenith.
    — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of zenith
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  • Her conversation with John also divulges the depths of his entwinement with current ring-bearer Hal Jordan, via a flashback to when John was a baby, in the all-important year of 1986.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2026
  • But the team instead kept depth elsewhere and gave the veteran Johnson the nod over the undrafted rookie Slone.
    — Sam Warren, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of depth
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  • Her minimalist black sandal added a touch of elevation and formality to her shorts-and-T combo.
    — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Curiosity has climbed through a vertical half-mile (1 kilometer) of rock layers so far, finding clay-rich, mudstone layers that give way at higher elevations to younger sandstones full of salty minerals.
    — Ashwin R. Vasavada, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of elevation
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  • Instead, he’s spent August anxiously watching the orange skies from his house in the northern Nevada hills through two consecutive and adjacent wild-land fires, the Bug and Hawk Fires.
    — Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026
  • He was filled with ambition to see more of the country, write a spy thriller and literally climb more hills.
    — Andrea Javor, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of hill
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  • Now, in the midst of a subdued market, investors are being more selective, and the new playbook for funding fashion has a lot to do with the quality of that growth, the depth of connection with customers and the founder’s individual appeal.
    — Tara Donaldson, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2026
  • While the Anaheim Ducks, located a stone’s throw from Angel Stadium, are in the midst of a massive refurbishment project, the area surrounding the baseball stadium is largely dormant.
    — Sam Blum, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of midst
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  • By Christmas it had been canonized as the pinnacle of ‘sad girl lit’ with Martha taking her place in that post-Fleabag lineage of fractured female characters.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Researchers told me that many Democrats believe that the pinnacle of achievement is having a good education and a fruitful career.
    — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of pinnacle
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  • The pre-tax dependent care account limit rises to $7,500 for 2026, covering elder care.
    — Jasmine Browley, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Over the last decade, hundreds of homes have burned down near the outer limits of Lisbon, Milan and other European cities, including scores this summer outside Madrid and Athens.
    — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of limit
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  • Challenging construction site The station was built in a high-altitude area with difficult geological and geographic conditions.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Generally, in high-altitude environments such as mountain ranges, permafrost—basically, frozen soil—holds sediment and rocky material together.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of altitude

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“Height.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/height. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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