HIGHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does higher mean? 

• HIGHER (adjective)
  The adjective HIGHER has 2 senses:

1. advanced in complexity or elaboration

2. of education beyond the secondary level

  Familiarity information: HIGHER used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGHER (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Advanced in complexity or elaboration

Context example:

higher mathematics

Similar:

high (greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of education beyond the secondary level

Context example:

higher learning

Similar:

high (greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount)

 Context examples 

The biotin content of cancerous tissue is higher than that of normal tissue.

(Biotin, NCI Thesaurus)

You are yourself aware that you will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the Assizes.

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

I noticed they grinned with satisfaction whenever they looked at the Macedonia’s smoke, which was rising higher and higher as she approached from the west.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

People with a family history of bladder cancer or who are older, white, or male have a higher risk.

(Bladder Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

“Higher, Wat, higher!” “Put thy body into it, Will!” “Forget not the wind, Hal!”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To the scientific student of the higher criminal world, no capital in Europe offered the advantages which London then possessed.

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

They offered books and painting, beauty and repose, and all the fine elegance of higher existence.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As you are aware, Watson, there is no one who knows the higher criminal world of London so well as I do.

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

Ever pointing upward, Agnes; ever leading me to something better; ever directing me to higher things!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

People with certain changes in the gene for melanotropin receptor have a higher risk of developing melanoma (skin cancer that begins in melanocytes).

(Melanotropin receptor, NCI Dictionary)