higher
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
- advanced in complexity or elaboration higher financehigher mathematics
- of education beyond the secondary level higher educationhigher learning
higher in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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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
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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
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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
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Then, climbing up still higher, he at last reached a house beside whose open door six bells were hanging.
Cornelli · Johanna Spyri · Chapter 1
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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