Hight

//haɪt// adj, name, noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete form of height. alt-of, obsolete

    "High thron'd above all hights"

Verb
  1. 1
    To call, name. archaic, transitive

    "King Arthur's court was hight Camelot."

  2. 2
    To be called or named. archaic, copulative

    "I hight Sir Galahad."

  3. 3
    To command; to enjoin. archaic, dialectal

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

Adjective
  1. 1
    Called, named. archaic, not-comparable

    "[…]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."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Synonyms

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Example

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"King Arthur's court was hight Camelot."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

See height

Etymology 3

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

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