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HIGH GROUND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does high ground mean?
• HIGH GROUND (noun)
The noun HIGH GROUND has 1 sense:
1. a position of superiority over opponents or competitors
Familiarity information: HIGH GROUND used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A position of superiority over opponents or competitors
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("high ground" is a kind of...):
position; status (the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society)
Context examples
The fog was rapidly dispersing; already the moon shone quite clear on the high ground on either side; and it was only in the exact bottom of the dell and round the tavern door that a thin veil still hung unbroken to conceal the first steps of our escape.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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