heighth
/haɪθ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of height.
Example Sentences
- "And from hence also shall be the geodesy of the Icosaedrum. For the finding out of the heighth of the pyramis, there is the semidiagony of the side of the decangle and the halfe ray of the circle: But the side of the decangle is a right line subtending the halfe periphery of the side of the quinquangle, or else the greater segment of the ray proportionally cut."
- "In the Infancy of the World, Governments began with little Families and Colonies of Men; so that, when ever any Government arrived to greater Heighth than the rest, either by the great Wisdom or Courage of the Government, they afterwards grew a pace..."
- "'Why then to me this restless World's but Hell, Till this mishapen trunks aspiring head 'Be circled in a glorious Diadem -- But then 'tis fixt on such an heighth, O!..."
- "The heighth of the celestial happiness is to see God (...)."
- ""[…] That! that, is the print of a foot, but 'tis the dark hair's; and small it is, too, for one of such a noble heighth and grand appearance! […]""
- "The four of us were dressed in the heighth of fashion, which in those days was a pair of black very tight tights with the old jelly mould, as we called it, […]"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Old English