high
/hɑɪ/ adj [-er/-est only] (DISTANCE)Definition
› (esp. of things that are not living) being a large distance from top to bottom or a long way above the ground, or having the stated distance from top to bottom: Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. We had to climb over a wall that was ten feet high.
(Definition of high adj (DISTANCE) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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