hi

alternative heigh

1. A friendly, informal, casual greeting said upon someone's arrival.

   Hi, how are you?

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   I just dropped by to say “hi”.

   Anna: Pete, hi! Hi, we are here! — Pete: Hi, Anna! Hi, Marsha! — Anna: Hi! — Pete: How are you two? — Marsha: I am great!

   2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

   When out on the prairie, up galloped an Indian on his pony with his saluting "hi!"

   1862, Miriam Davis Colt, Went to Kansas, L. Ingalls & Company, →ISBN, page 143

   Synonyms: hello, greetings, howdy

2. An exclamation to call attention.

   'Come back now!' shouted Sam. 'Hi! Come back!' But Gollum had vanished.

   1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

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   I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.

   1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

3. dated outside of IrelandExpressing wonder or derision.

   That’s mad, hi!

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   How did he do that, hi?

plural his · alternative heigh

1. The word "hi" used as a greeting.

   I didn't even get a hi.

   Synonyms: greeting, hello

1. informalInformal spelling of high, often in hyphenated terms.

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1. abbreviationAbbreviation of Hawaii: a state of the United States.

1. abbreviationuncountableon some gear leversAbbreviation of high (“high gear or high range”).

   Antonyms: LO[low]], low gear>

2. abbreviationinitialismuncountableInitialism of hyperspectral imaging.

1. A male given name, a short form of Hiram