HEIGHTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heights mean? 

• HEIGHTS (noun)
  The noun HEIGHTS has 1 sense:

1. a high place

  Familiarity information: HEIGHTS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEIGHTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A high place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

heights; high

Context example:

he doesn't like heights

Hypernyms ("heights" is a kind of...):

place; spot; topographic point (a point located with respect to surface features of some region)

 Context examples 

Keep this in mind—your career is reaching great heights that you’ve never seen or even imagined possible before this, so it is obvious that you deserve the money you want.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

To simulate a traumatic brain injury, a weight was dropped onto the brain-like tissue from varying heights.

(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)

When my old tutor used to give me an exercise in trigonometry, it always took the shape of measuring heights.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

San Francisco lay like a blur of smoke upon her heights.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I had found sublimity and wonder in the dread heights and precipices, in the roaring torrents, and the wastes of ice and snow; but as yet, they had taught me nothing else.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The result is considered positive when the knees are at different heights.

(Galeazzi Test, NCI Thesaurus)

He sketched himself in to give a scale of heights.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These are the average heights, but some Pyrenees are as much as 40 inches (1 meter) Weight: from 85 pounds (38kg.)

(Great Pyrenees, NCI Thesaurus)

The walls of bare unpainted planks were studded here and there with great wooden pins, placed at irregular intervals and heights, from which hung over-tunics, wallets, whips, bridles, and saddles.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Acrophobia is a fear of heights.

(Phobias, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)