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HIGHNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A high degree (of amount or force etc.)
Example:
responsible for the highness of the rates
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("highness" is a kind of...):
degree; grade; level (a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality)
Derivation:
high (greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount)
high (standing above others in quality or position)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of being high or lofty
Synonyms:
highness; loftiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("highness" is a kind of...):
height; tallness (the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top)
Antonym:
lowness (the quality of being low; lacking height)
Derivation:
high ((literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like 'knee-high'))
Sense 3
Meaning:
(Your Highness or His Highness or Her Highness) title used to address a royal person
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Highness" is a kind of...):
aristocrat; blue blood; patrician (a member of the aristocracy)
Holonyms ("Highness" is a member of...):
royal family; royal house; royal line; royalty (royal persons collectively)
Context examples:
“He is coming with me to London, and I thought it right to begin by presenting him to your Royal Highness.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We apprehend his imperial highness, the heir to the crown, to have some tendency towards the high heels; at least we can plainly discover that one of his heels is higher than the other, which gives him a hobble in his gait.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I thank your Royal Highness for your kindness in receiving my nephew in so gracious a fashion.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We passed through several apartments, between servants of the same sort, ranked on each side as before, till we came to the chamber of presence; where, after three profound obeisances, and a few general questions, we were permitted to sit on three stools, near the lowest step of his highness’s throne.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
“The terms, your Royal Highness and gentlemen, are briefly these,” said he.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I could not recover myself in some time, till the governor assured me, that I should receive no hurt: and observing my two companions to be under no concern, who had been often entertained in the same manner, I began to take courage, and related to his highness a short history of my several adventures; yet not without some hesitation, and frequently looking behind me to the place where I had seen those domestic spectres.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Five foot eleven and thirteen-ten, your Royal Highness.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The day of our departure being come, I took leave of his highness, the Governor of Glubbdubdrib, and returned with my two companions to Maldonada, where, after a fortnight’s waiting, a ship was ready to sail for Luggnagg.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
“Perhaps your Royal Highness has a preference,” said my uncle.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For his highness the governor ordered me to call up whatever persons I would choose to name, and in whatever numbers, among all the dead from the beginning of the world to the present time, and command them to answer any questions I should think fit to ask; with this condition, that my questions must be confined within the compass of the times they lived in.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
