height

The distance from the bottom to the top of a person or thing.

• What is the height of this table?
• The tree reached a height of ten metres.
• They measured the children’s heights.

Similar words: tallness

Common phrases: height of something, average height, full height, someone’s height

The distance above the ground, sea, or another chosen level.

• The plane flew at a great height.
• Keep the shelf at a height children can reach.
• The balloon rose to a height of fifty metres.

How to use it: at a height of + measurement (The helicopter hovered at a height of twenty metres.)

Similar words: altitude, elevation

Common phrases: at a height, height above ground, great height

The time or point when something is strongest, most successful, or most extreme.

• She was at the height of her career.
• We visited at the height of summer.
• At the height of the storm, the lights went out.

How to use it: at the height of something (At the height of the crisis, thousands needed help.)

Similar words: peak, climax, pinnacle

Common phrases: height of something, at the height, height of summer