high
In or to an elevated positionIn or to an elevated position.
» It's high time you got going.
Du solltest schon längst abgefahren sein. — xtofu80
Es ist höchste Zeit, dass du aufbrichst. — Zaghawa
Тебе уже пора идти. — fjay69
Тебе уже давно пора идти. — marafon
Вам уже давно пора идти. — marafon
Тебе уже давно пора ехать. — marafon
Вам уже давно пора ехать. — marafon
Тобі вже давно час іти. — deniko
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3 sensesIn or to an elevated position.
How high above land did you fly?
The desks were piled high with magazines.
высокоvysoko
in or to a high position, amount, or degree
In or at a great value.
Costs have grown higher this year again.
at a great altitude
At a pitch of great frequency.
I certainly can't sing that high.
Examples
4726 sentencesIt's high time you got going.
Тобі вже давно час іти. — deniko
ruТебе уже пора идти. — fjay69
deDu solltest schon längst abgefahren sein. — xtofu80
The driver maintained a high speed.
Водій підтримував високу швидкість. — aandrusiak
deDer Fahrer behielt eine hohe Geschwindigkeit bei. — kriskelvin
Tom is a high school student.
Том — старшокласник. — deniko
ruТом — учащийся средней школы. — sharptoothed
deTom ist Schüler. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
I had a very high fever.
У мене була дуже висока температура. — deniko
ruУ меня была очень высокая температура. — odexed
Are you still in high school?
Ти все ще школяр? — deniko
deGehst du noch zur Schule? — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
4 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From Middle English high, heigh, heih, from Old English hēah (“high, tall, lofty, high-claFrom 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 (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (“high”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk- (“to bend; crooked”).
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Forms
higher, highestSynonyms
3 synonyms- at a great altitude:high up
- in a rich manner:richlyluxuriously
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
Collocations
12 patterns- high school
- in high school
- high school student
- junior high school
- graduated from high
- from high school
- a high school
- junior high
- was in high
- in junior high
- since high school
- to high school
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.