Word for the day: high

high |hʌɪ|                                        *alto (en Español) 



DEFINITION
adjective

Great, or greater than normal, in quantity,size, or intensity: a high temperature | sweets are very high in calories.

• of large numerical or monetary value: they had been playing for high stakes.• very favourable: she had not a very high opinion of men.• extreme in religious or political views: a man of high Tory opinions.• (of a period or movement) at its peak: high summer.

ORIGIN 
Old English hēah, of Germanicorigin; related to Dutch hoog and Germanhoch .

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