Usually means: Elevated position or state; intoxicated.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. high: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. high: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. high: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. high: Collins English Dictionary
  5. high: Vocabulary.com
  6. HIgh, High, High, high: Wordnik
  7. high: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. High, high: Wiktionary
  9. high: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. high: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. high: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. high: Dictionary.com
  13. high: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. high: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. High (David Hallyday song), High (EP), High (Feeder song), High (Flotsam and Jetsam album), High (James Blunt song), High (Lighthouse Family song), High (New Model Army album), High (Peking Duk song), High (Sir Sly song), High (The Blue Nile album), High (The Cure song), High (Whethan and Dua Lipa song), High (film), High (play), High, The High: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. High: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. high: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. high: Rhymezone
  19. high, high: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. high: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. high: Free Dictionary
  22. high: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. high: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. high: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. high: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. high-: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. High: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. High: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. High (song), High: Legal dictionary
  6. high: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. High (song), high: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Pregnancy & Baby (No longer online)
  3. High (song), high: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. HIGH: Acronym Finder
  3. high: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. high, high, high, high, high: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. high: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. High, The High: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. High: Dan's Poker
  2. High (Gear): Bicycle Glossary
  3. High: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:
adjective:  Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
adjective:  Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
adjective:  (baseball, of a ball) Above the batter's shoulders.
adjective:  Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a greater elevation, for example more mountainous, than other regions.
adjective:  Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
adjective:  Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
adjective:  Most exalted; foremost.
adjective:  Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).
adjective:  Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality in its supreme degree, at its zenith.
adjective:  Advanced in complexity (and hence potentially abstract and/or difficult to comprehend).
adjective:  (of an opinion or practice, obsolete outside set phrases) Extreme, excessive; now specifically very traditionalist and conservative.
adjective:  Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
adjective:  (of a lifestyle) Luxurious; rich.
adjective:  Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.
adjective:  (with "on" or "about") Keen, enthused.
adjective:  (of a body of water) With tall waves.
adjective:  Remote (to the north or south) from the equator; situated at (or constituting) a latitude which is expressed by a large number.
adjective:  Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
adjective:  Having a large or comparatively larger concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
adjective:  (acoustics) Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).
adjective:  (phonetics) Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
adjective:  (card games) Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
adjective:  (poker) Having the highest rank in a straight, flush or straight flush.
adjective:  (of a card or hand) Winning; able to take a trick, win a round, etc.
adjective:  (of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
adjective:  (informal) Intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.
adjective:  (nautical, of a sailing ship) Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
adjective:  (sports such as soccer) Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.
adverb:  In or to an elevated position.
adverb:  In or at a great value.
adverb:  At a pitch of great frequency.
noun:  A high point or position, literally (as, an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven) or figuratively (as, a point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best, greatest, most numerous, maximum, etc).
noun:  The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
noun:  A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
noun:  A drug that gives such a high.
noun:  (meteorology, informal) A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
noun:  (card games) The highest card dealt or drawn.
verb:  (obsolete) To rise.
noun:  A surname.
verb:  (obsolete) Alternative form of hie (“to hasten”) [(intransitive, poetic) To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.]

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