/haɪt/
OriginFrom Middle English highten, variant of hoten (“to name, to be named”), from Old English hātan. The stem of the word was remodelled by analogy with the simple past form hight, from Old English hēht. Cognate with Scots hecht, Dutch heten, German heißen, etc.
- archaic, transitiveTo call, name.
“King Arthur's court was hight Camelot.”
“He that made loue vnto the eldeſt Dame, Was hight Sir Huddibras, an hardy man[…]”
“Childe Harold was he hight.”
- archaic, copulativeTo be called or named.
“I hight Sir Galahad.”
“Bright was her hue, and Geraldine she hight.”
“In all the worlde one onely face of nature did abide, which Chaos hight”
- archaic, dialectalTo command; to enjoin.
“Malaise priest of Innishmurry / Hights me go, and I obey.”
- archaic, not-comparableCalled, named.
“[…]there dwelt in a city of the cities of China a man which was a tailor, withal a pauper, and he had one son, Alaeddin hight.”
Formshights(present, singular, third-person) · highting(participle, present) · hight(participle, past) · hight(past) · highte(alternative) · Hights(plural)