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English
Etymology
From French hauteur.
Pronunciation
Noun
hauteur (countable and uncountable, plural hauteurs)
- Haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness.
1842, Alexander Campbell, “Kickable People”, in Sketches of Life and Character, page 11:Who ever went into a public office, and was treated, as he is very apt to be, with the most offensive hauteur by some saucy, well-paid official, without feeling the desire to kick him rising strong within him?
1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:“What's happened, young Herring?” I think for a moment he was about to draw himself up with hauteur and say he would prefer, if we didn't mind, not to discuss his private affairs, but when he was half-way up he caught Aunt Dahlia's eye and returned to position one.
- 1992, Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 31
- n angered motorist sounded his horn, but The Senator took no heed: not out of arrogance or hauteur but, simply, because he took no heed.
1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:I imagine the Dreamward’s Hotel Manager to be an avuncular Norwegian with a rag sweater and a soothing odor of Borkum Rif about him, a guy w/o sunglasses or hauteur […]
2014 May 28, John McWhorter, “Saint Maya”, in The New Republic, →ISSN:Sometimes the hauteur is nothing more dire than a kind of black-mother wit.
Further reading
- “hauteur”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “hauteur, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “hauteur”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “hauteur”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “hauteur” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
French
Etymology
From haut + -eur.
Pronunciation
Noun
hauteur f (plural hauteurs)
- height, altitude
La hauteur du Mont Everest est de 8.848 mètres.- The height of Mount Everest is 8,848 meters.
- arrogance
- (geometry) height
La hauteur d’un parallélogramme est perpendiculaire à sa base.- The height of a parallelogram is perpendicular to its base.
- (music) pitch
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