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hight
1[ hahyt ]
adjective
- Archaic. called or named:
Childe Harold was he hight.
hight
2[ hahyt ]
noun
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
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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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