highness
pronunciation
How to pronounce highness in British English:
UK ['haɪnəs]
How to pronounce highness in American English:
US ['haɪnəs]
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- Noun:
- the condition of being high or lofty
Word Origin
- highness (n.)
- Old English heanes; see high (adj.) + -ness. Meaning "royalty, excellence, nobility" is early 13c.; Your Highness as a form of address to English royalty is attested from c. 1400.
Example
- 1. You should be more careful , your royal highness .
- 2. You are my highness forever !
- 3. It was in that context that I looked at him and asked , " your highness , don 't you think it would be easier to do if you weren 't operating from north korea ? "
- 4. He will not sue , he says , but keep his focus strictly on his highness .
- 5. Watch your highness trailer bad behavior danny mcbride .