highlight
/ˈhaɪˌlaɪt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.21 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An area or a spot in a drawing, painting, or photograph that is strongly illuminated.
noun
An especially significant or interesting detail or event or period of time.
verb
To be a highlight of.
Transitive verb
verb
To mark (important passages of text), e.g. with a fluorescent marker pen or in a wordprocessor, as a means of memory retention or for later reference.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "The image blurred into the highlight, like something familiar seen beneath disturbed though clear water; he looked at the familiar image with a kind of quiet horror and despair, at a face suddenly older in sin than he would ever be, a face more blurred than sweet, at eyes more secret than soft."
- "Meeting my future wife was the highlight of my trip to Spain."
- "We'll be broadcasting the news highlights every half an hour."
- "The Guardian has spoken to dozens of Europeans who have left, or are planning to leave. Their stories highlight surprising new migration routes – from Lisbon to Luanda, Dublin to Perth, Barcelona to Buenos Aires – as well as more traditional migration patterns."
- "Farmer highlights the fact that the reasons why causing offence is (or is not) deemed criminalizable are often historically specific, and follows Duff in counselling against attempts to ground criminalization in some 'master principle'[…]"
- "The proposal in connection with taxonymy is that a taxonym must (a) further specify a highlighted feature of the hypernym and (b) must similarly highlight it. From this it will follow that the reason stallion and foal are not good taxonyms of horse, is that they highlight features not highlighted in horse; a similar explanation holds for blonde and woman; likewise, prostitute is not a good taxonym of woman because it highlights profession, but is a good taxonym of sex-worker, because it specifies further and highlights what is highlighted in sex-worker, namely, type of work."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kewk- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *kówkos Proto-Germanic *hauhaz Proto-West Germanic *hauh Old English hēah Middle English heigh English high English light English highlight From high + light.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈhaɪˌlaɪt/
- British English: /ˈhaɪlaɪt/