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higher

adjective US /ˈhaɪər/

advanced in complexity or elaboration

How often you will meet it

Rank 1,317 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 13,892 times across 175,113 chapters — 0.007% of every word in the library.

What it means

adjective

  1. advanced in complexity or elaboration higher financehigher mathematics
  2. of education beyond the secondary level higher educationhigher learning

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary · Princeton WordNet 3.1

higher in real books

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  • Had he taken a higher place than the Middle Shell?

    The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1

  • V Rejected once on higher plain, O Love supreme, to come again Can this be thine?

    John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1

  • It was a long, long wall of earth, very high--oh, as high as a house, or even higher!

    The Dutch Twins · Lucy Fitch Perkins · Chapter 1

  • Then, climbing up still higher, he at last reached a house beside whose open door six bells were hanging.

    Cornelli · Johanna Spyri · Chapter 1

  • But he went more and more slowly as he got higher up the hill; for now the ground grew very bad indeed.

    The Water-Babies · Charles Kingsley · Chapter 1

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