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heightnoun the highest part or pointmany regard the painting of the Sistine Chapel as the height of Michelangelo's career acme, apex, apogee, capstone, climax, crescendo, crest, crown, culmination, head, high noon, high-water mark, meridian, ne plus ultra, noon, noontime, peak, pinnacle, sum, summit, tip-top, top, zenith bloom, blossom, flood tide, flower, glory, heyday, primecap, ceiling, roofextreme, extremity, tip, vertexhigh, highlight, highspot bottom, nadir, rock bottom abyss, base, footminimum the most extreme or advanced pointthe student's defiant use of a cell phone during class was regarded by the professor as the height of insolence depth, extremity, limit consummation, epitome, quintessence, ultimate the distance of something or someone from bottom to topthe average height of the players on the volleyball team is well over six feet an area of high groundGulliver, standing on a height near the shore, saw an island suspended above the sea altitude(s), elevation, eminence, highland, hill, hump, mound, prominence, rise, upland alp, mount, mountain, peakbutte, mesa, plateau, table, tablelandbluff, cliff, crag, precipice, steep, torridge, sierradome, sugarloaffoothill, hillock, hummock, knob, knolldowns lowland dale, dell, depression, dingle, glen, hollow, vale, valleybasin, bottom, bottomland, fen, flat, floodplain, plain, tidewater the most intense or characteristic phase of somethingat the very height of the storm, someone knocked on the door deep, depth, middle, midst, thick center, heart height, altitude, elevation mean vertical distance either between the top and bottom of something or between a base and something above it.height refers to something measured vertically whether high or low.a wall two meters in height altitude and elevation apply to height as measured by angular measurement or atmospheric pressure; altitude is preferable when referring to vertical distance above the surface of the earth or above sea level; elevation is used especially in reference to vertical height on land.fly at an altitude of 10,000 meters Denver is a city with a high elevation before the 12th century |