height
noun
[ hʌɪt ]
• the measurement of someone or something from head to foot or from base to top.
• "columns rising to 65 feet in height"
• the point or period at which something is at its best or strongest.
• "the height of the tourist season"
Similar:
high point,
highest point,
crowning moment,
culminating point,
peak,
acme,
apotheosis,
zenith,
apogee,
pinnacle,
climax,
culmination,
consummation,
high water mark,
Opposite:
nadir,
low point,
Origin:
Old English hēhthu (in the sense ‘top of something’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoogte, also to high.
