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Word entry · 6 letters

height

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"Tallness"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /haɪt/Part of speech nounSorted eghhitStarts with HEnds with T2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot

Word origin

From Middle English heighte, heiȝþe, from Old English hēahþu, hēhþo, hīehþu (“height”), Proto-West Germanic *hauhiþu, from Proto-Germanic *hauhiþō (compare *hauhaz). Equivalent to high + -t (abstract nominal suffix). The regular pronunciation is now obsolete /heɪt/ (as with other words in -eight); the modern form developed early on, at first as a variant, by analogy with the underlying adjective.

Used in a sentence

  • Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length [title of poem]
  • — What's your height? — 180 centimetres.
  • The area of a triangle is "a half base times height".

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Tallness6 letters
02How tall something is6 letters

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