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hight¹

  • /haɪt/

Sounds like height · Rhymes with -aɪt

Where it comes from

From Middle English highten, variant of hoten (“to name, to be named”), from Old English hātan. The stem of the word was remodelled by analogy with the simple past form hight, from Old English hēht. Cognate with Scots hecht, Dutch heten, German heißen, etc.

verb hights · highting · hight · highte

  1. archaic, transitive To call, name. King Arthur's court was hight Camelot.
  2. archaic, copulative, with a name as complement To be called or named. I hight Sir Galahad.
  3. archaic, dialectal To command; to enjoin. Malaise priest of Innishmurry / Hights me go, and I obey.

adjective highte

  1. archaic, not comparable Called, named. […]there dwelt in a city of the cities of China a man which was a tailor, withal a pauper, and he had one son, Alaeddin hight.

    Similar: yclept

hight²

  • /haɪt/

Sounds like height · Rhymes with -aɪt

Where it comes from

See height

noun hights · highte

  1. obsolete Obsolete form of height High thron'd above all hights
  2. misspelling Misspelling of height

Hight³

Where it comes from

English topographic surname, from the noun height. Compare Haight.

proper noun Hights

  1. A surname.

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verb be called

Españolllamarse
한국어...(이)라고 부르다
日本語...と言う ... to iu, ...という ... to iu, ...と申す ... to mōsu
中文叫 jiào, 稱為 /称为 chēngwéi
Portuguêschamar-se
Françaiss'appeler, se nommer
Deutschheißen, sich nennen
Italianochiamarsi
Ελληνικάλέγομαι légomai
Русскийназыва́ться nazyvátʹsja, именова́ться imenovátʹsja
Tiếng Việtđược gọi là

adj called, named

Русскийназыва́емый nazyvájemyj, имену́емый imenújemyj

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@misc{hight_2026,
  title = {hight},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hight},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}