heights
- 1Plural of height.
Surveyors recorded the heights of several peaks along the ridge.
Her excitement reached new heights when the results came in.
Note
Only the countable uses of height take a plural. Height as a general dimension, as in a person of medium height, stays singular. Several measured things have heights, though, like peaks, towers or children on a growth chart. The figurative "high point" pluralizes freely too, so excitement or ambition can reach new heights. If a plural sounds wrong, the singular was probably being used as a mass noun.
- 2An area of homes or other buildings that has been developed on a hill or mountainside.
They bought a house in the heights, where the streets curve along the ridge.
Buses run less often up in the heights than down by the waterfront.
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Note
A place rather than a measurement, and a word with no singular: a house stands in the heights, never in a height. It usually takes the article and a word of location, as in in the heights or up in the heights. Up pairs naturally with it, set against down for the lower ground. Spelling alone does not separate it from the ordinary plural; the article and that sense of location do.
heights is a form of height
height, noun: How tall a person, animal, or thing is, measured from the base or the ground to the top; a horse is measured to the withers. Full entry
- Forms
- heightheights plural
- Spelling
- height → heights: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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