Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:
The balloon rose high in the sky. The wall was high. a high mountain
Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
three feet high three Mount Everests high
Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
The oldest of the elves' royal family still conversed in High Elvish.
In or to an elevated position.
How high above land did you fly?
In or at a great value.
Costs have grown higher this year again.
A high point or position, literally (as, an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven) or figuratively (as, a point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best, greatest, most numerous, maximum, etc).
It was one of the highs of his career.
A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
Falling from cloud nine / Crashing from the high / I'm letting go tonight / Yeah, I'm falling from cloud nine
A surname.
From Middle English high, heigh, heih, from Old English hēah (“high, tall, lofty, high-class, exalted, sublime, illustrious, important, proud, haughty, deep, right”), from Proto-West Germanic *hauh (“...
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At a pitch of great frequency.
I certainly can't sing that high.
A drug that gives such a high.
No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.