height
♦ height /h'aɪt/ (heights)
1 [N-VAR] oft with poss, amount in N, N of amount
The height of a person or thing is their size or length from the bottom to the top.
I am 5'6'' in height...
The wave here has a length of 250 feet and a height of 10 feet...
He was a man of medium height.
2 [N-UNCOUNT]
Height is the quality of being tall.
She admits that her height is intimidating for some men.
3 [N-VAR]
A particular height is the distance that something is above the ground or above something else mentioned.
...a test in which a 6.3 kilogram weight was dropped on it from a height of 1 metre...
4 [N-COUNT]
A height is a high position or place above the ground.
I'm not afraid of heights.
5 [N-SING] at N with poss
When an activity, situation, or organization is at its height, it is at its most successful, powerful, or intense.
During the early sixth century emigration from Britain to Brittany was at its height...
= peak
6 [N-SING] the N of n
If you say that something is the height of a particular quality, you are emphasizing that it has that quality to the greatest degree possible.
The hip-hugging black and white polka-dot dress was the height of fashion...
7 [N-PLURAL] with supp, oft adj N, N of n
If something reaches great heights, it becomes very extreme or intense.
...the mid-1980s, when house prices rose to absurd heights...
1 [N-VAR] oft with poss, amount in N, N of amount
The height of a person or thing is their size or length from the bottom to the top.
I am 5'6'' in height...
The wave here has a length of 250 feet and a height of 10 feet...
He was a man of medium height.
2 [N-UNCOUNT]
Height is the quality of being tall.
She admits that her height is intimidating for some men.
3 [N-VAR]
A particular height is the distance that something is above the ground or above something else mentioned.
...a test in which a 6.3 kilogram weight was dropped on it from a height of 1 metre...
4 [N-COUNT]
A height is a high position or place above the ground.
I'm not afraid of heights.
5 [N-SING] at N with poss
When an activity, situation, or organization is at its height, it is at its most successful, powerful, or intense.
During the early sixth century emigration from Britain to Brittany was at its height...
= peak
6 [N-SING] the N of n
If you say that something is the height of a particular quality, you are emphasizing that it has that quality to the greatest degree possible.
The hip-hugging black and white polka-dot dress was the height of fashion...
7 [N-PLURAL] with supp, oft adj N, N of n
If something reaches great heights, it becomes very extreme or intense.
...the mid-1980s, when house prices rose to absurd heights...