Definition of height :
1. Degree of latitude either north or south.
2. Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts; also, an advanced degree of social rank; preeminence or distinction in society; prominence.
3. Progress toward eminence; grade; degree.
4. That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights.
5. The condition of being high; elevated position.
6. The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of animal, especially of a man; stature.
7. Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height of a tempest.
prime, stature, blossom, tip, top of the inning, summit, extremum, summit meeting, zenith, end, natural elevation, crisis, lift, efflorescence, flush, prominence, upside, cap, crest, pitch, raising, point, mountain, culmination, upper side, crown, eyeshade, flower, depth, heyday, fastigium, superlative degree, cover, big top, top, bill, aggrandizement, vertex, peak, bloom, maximum, highness, superlative, teetotum, rise, spinning top, top side, apex, payoff, vizor, acme, climax, whirligig, meridian, circus tent, hill, aggrandisement, apogee, high, pinnacle, slope, visor, line of longitude, tiptop, roof, round top
height (part of speech: noun)
size (part of speech: noun)
expanse, width, magnitude, greatness, proportion, capacity, amplitude, largeness, chunkiness, area, length, breadth, corpulence, bigness, portliness, size, volume, bulk, measurement, extent, dimension
- When the two arrived at the cane- board business was at its height, and the clerk and his assistant were having quite as much as they could do to attend to the customers. - "The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair", James Otis.
- She stood at her full, beautiful height. - "Kincaid's Battery", George W. Cable.
- La Mole was at the height of joy. - "Marguerite de Valois", Alexandre Dumas.