height

height
/haIt/ noun
1 TALL
a) (U) how tall someone is: sb's height: State your age, height, and weight. | be the same/right etc height: My daughter's already about the same height as I am.
b) (C, U) the distance between the base and the top of something: What's the height of the Empire State Building? | in height: Some of the pyramids are over 200 feet in height.
2 DISTANCE ABOVE THE GROUND (C) a particular distance above the ground: It's a miracle she didn't break her neck falling from that height. | at a height of 10,000 feet
3 gain/lose height if an aircraft gains height or loses height, it moves higher in the sky or it drops lower in the sky: The plane was rapidly losing height.
4 HIGH PLACE heights plural
a) places that are a long way above the ground: Rachel had always been scared of heights. | have a head for heights (=not be afraid of heights)
b) a particular high place: the Golan Heights
5 reach/attain/rise to new heights
a) to reach a very high level of achievement or success: Her career rose to new heights. | take sth to new heights: Torville and Dean took ice dancing to new heights.
b) to reach a very great level or degree: War fever had reached new heights.
6 the height of the part of a period of time that is the busiest, hottest etc, or when there is the most activity: the height of the tourist season
7 be at the height of your success/fame/powers etc to be at the time when you are most successful, famous etc: The Beatles were at the height of their fame.
8 be the height of fashion/stupidity/luxury etc to be extremely fashionable, stupid etc: Flared trousers were considered to be the height of fashion in those days.

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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