hight

[ hahyt ]

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adjective

Archaic. called or named:
Childe Harold was he hight.

hight

[ hahyt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

height.

hight

/ haɪt /

verb

archaic.
tr; used only as a past tense in the passive or as a past participle to name; call
a maid hight Mary

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Word History and Origins

Origin of hight¹

before 900; Middle English; Old English heht, reduplicated preterit of hātan to name, call, promise, command (cognate with German heissen to call, be called, mean); akin to behest

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Word History and Origins

Origin of hight¹

Old English heht, from hatan to call; related to Old Norse heita, Old Frisian hēta, Old High German heizzan

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Example Sentences

Know ye that there is a maid journeyed hither, hight Robinson—whose—(in her natural voice) what's the old for aunt?

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And yet the Alps are little more than half the hight of the Andes, and not more than a hundredth part of their mass.

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King Ogvald fought with that King who is hight Varin, & fell in the combat.

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The King asked of the man his name, and the latter said he was hight Hallfrod.

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Then caused the King his banner Land-waster to be borne aloft, and Fridrek was the man hight who bore the banner.

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