hight

H4I1G2H4T1
/haɪt/

verb

To call, name.

“I hight Sir Galahad.”

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OriginMiddle English highten ← Old English hātan →
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Meanings

hight1

verbhight (third-person singular simple present hights, present participle highting, simple past and past participle hight)

present singular third person hights · participle present highting · alternative highte

  1. archaictransitiveTo call, name.

    King Arthur's court was hight Camelot.

    3 more examples

    He that made loue vnto the eldeſt Dame, Was hight Sir Huddibras, an hardy man[…]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene, page 209

    Childe Harold was he hight.

    1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza III

    “Lord,” said Sir Launcelot, “I am hight Launcelot, and am surnamed ‘He of the Lake.’”

    1905, Howard Pyle, “The Story of Launcelot”, in The Story of the Champions of the Round Table, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 66
  2. archaiccopulativeTo be called or named.

    I hight Sir Galahad.

    3 more examples

    Bright was her hue, and Geraldine she hight.

    c. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The faithful Lover declareth his Pains and his uncertain Joys, and with only Hope recomforteth somewhat his woful Heart

    In all the worlde one onely face of nature did abide, which Chaos hight

    1567, Ovid, The.xv.Bookes of P. Ouidius Naſo, entytuled Metamorphoſis, tranſlated oute of Latin into Engliſh meeter, by Arthur Golding, Gentleman

    There did I ſee that low ſpirited Swaine […] which as I remember, hight Coſtard […]

    c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]
  3. archaicdialectalTo command; to enjoin.

    Malaise priest of Innishmurry / Hights me go, and I obey.

    1872, John Stuart Blackie, Lays of the Highlands and Islands
adjectivehight (not comparable)

alternative highte

  1. archaicnot comparableCalled, named.

    […]there dwelt in a city of the cities of China a man which was a tailor, withal a pauper, and he had one son, Alaeddin hight.

    1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 514”, in Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC

    Synonyms: yclept

hight2

nounhight (plural hights)

plural hights · alternative highte

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of height.

    High thron'd above all hights

    1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC
  2. misspellingMisspelling of height

Hight3

proper nounHight (plural Hights)

plural Hights

  1. A surname.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveCalled, named.

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Origin

hight · verb, adjective

  1. Old Englishhēht
  2. Old Englishhātan
  3. Middle Englishhighten
  4. Englishhight

From Middle English highten, variant of hoten (“to name, to be named”), from Old English hātan. The stem of the word was remodelled by analogy with the simple past form hight, from Old English hēht. Cognate with Scots hecht, Dutch heten, German heißen, etc.

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hight · noun

See height

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Hight · proper noun

English topographic surname, from the noun height. Compare Haight.

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Translations

Bulgarian ка́звам се, нари́чам се
  • ка́звам се (kázvam se)be called
  • нари́чам се (naríčam se)be called
Catalan dir-se
  • dir-sebe called
Chinese Mandarin 叫, 稱為 /称为
  • 叫 (jiào)be called
  • 稱為 /称为 (chēngwéi)be called
Czech jmenovat se
  • jmenovat sebe called
Danish hedde
  • heddebe called
Dutch heten
  • hetenbe called
Esperanto nomiĝi
  • nomiĝibe called
Finnish kutsutaan
  • kutsutaanbe called
French s'appeler, se nommer
  • s'appelerbe called
  • se nommerbe called
German heißen, sich nennen
  • heißenbe called
  • sich nennenbe called
Greek λέγομαι
  • λέγομαι (légomai)be called
Icelandic heita
  • heitabe called
Italian chiamarsi
  • chiamarsibe called
Japanese ...と言う, ...という
  • ...と言う (... to iu)be called
  • ...という (... to iu)be called
  • ...と申す (... to mōsu)be called
Korean ...(이)라고 부르다
  • ...(이)라고 부르다be called
Norwegian Bokmål hete
  • hetebe called
Persian گفته شدن
  • گفته شدن (gofte šodan)be called
Polish nazywać się, zwać się
  • nazywać siębe called
  • zwać siębe called
Portuguese chamar-se
  • chamar-sebe called
Russian называ́ться, именова́ться
  • называ́ться (nazyvátʹsja)be called
  • именова́ться (imenovátʹsja)be called
  • называ́емый (nazyvájemyj)called, named
  • имену́емый (imenújemyj)called, named
Slovak volať sa
  • volať sabe called
Spanish llamarse
  • llamarsebe called
Swedish heta
  • hetabe called
Thai ชื่อ
  • ชื่อ (chʉ̂ʉ)be called
Turkish çağrılabilir
  • çağrılabilirbe called
Ukrainian назива́тися
  • назива́тися (nazyvátysja)be called
Vietnamese được gọi là
  • được gọi làbe called

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with hight

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Sounds the same

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Anagrams

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APA

hight. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hight

MLA

“hight.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hight. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hight,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hight.

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