hight

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see also: Hight

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /haɪt/

Verb

hight (past and past participle hight)
hight is only the preterite or past participle, not the infinitive or present.

1. (archaic, transitive) To call, name.

   • Childe Harold was he hight.

2. (archaic, intransitive) To be called or named.

   • Bright was her hue, and Geraldine she hight.

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

   I hight ye take me wi' ye. I ne can no lenger her b'live.

   • 1872, John Stuart Blackie, Lays of the Highlands and Islands ↗:

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

Translations

• French: s'appeler, nommer
• German: heißen, nennen
• Italian: chiamarsi
• Portuguese: chamar-se
• Russian: называ́ться
• Spanish: llamarse

Adjective

hight (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Called, named.

   Synonyms: yclept

   • 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 514:

     […] 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.

Translations

• Russian: называ́емый

Noun

hight (plural hights)

1. Obsolete form of height#English|height.

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Hight

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Proper noun

1. Surname

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