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(adj)
(of clothing) Covering the full height of the body.
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(British spelling) Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.
(American spelling) Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.
Grand; impressive; imposing.
Using pompous speech; speaking with deliberately long or esoteric words.
Slender and long of limb; lanky.
(informal, derogatory) Tall, slim, and rather ungraceful or awkward.
(of a woman) Elegantly tall, graceful, and attractive.
Tall and thin, especially so as to cause physical awkwardness.
Awkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful.
(UK, US, chiefly of a woman) Having long, attractive legs; long-legged.
Having long legs.
Part of or similar to rhetoric, the use of language as a means to persuade.
Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
Not likely to happen.
having long legs
(of plants) having tall spindly stems
(of material or fluid) Solid and firm.
Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
(figurative) Amazing; astonishing; awe-inspiring.
(figuratively) Amazing, astonishing; so surprising that one is almost, or figuratively, unable to believe.
High, tall, having great height or stature.
Very tall or high and dwarfing anything around it.
Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:
At a higher level, rank or position.
(v)
(nonstandard, rare) To make or become bigger.
(n)
A large quantity or number; a great deal.
The distance from the base to the top of something.
Having a large physical extent from side to side.
Situated on the top of something.
Wide in extent or scope.
(informal) Very good; excellent; wonderful; fantastic.
Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.
Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
Very large.
Of great size, large.
Of a large size or extent; great.
Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.
Very strong; possessing might.
(loosely) Possessing power, might, or strength.
(obsolete) Large, great.
Speaking or writing at length; long-winded.
high (especially in terms of fashion, cookery or anything considered to be typically French)
Significant; worth considering.
Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.
Having a pleasing appearance, good-looking, attractive, particularly:
Thin; slim.
Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.
Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole, etc.; common to all, universal.
Having relevant and crucial value; having import.
Having a noticeable or major effect.
(US) Of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school (twelfth grade) or university.
At an important, elevated, or exalted level in a hierarchy or organization; high-level.
(of a sound) Of great intensity.
Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
(transitive, ditransitive) To convey by speech; to say.
(literary) True, real, actual.
(of clothing) Designed to sit high on, or above, the wearer's hips.
The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops.
Indispensable, supremely important.
Of two (or, rarely, more than two) things: the larger in size (bigger), in value, in importance etc.
An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.
(transitive) To make higher; to raise or increase in amount or quantity.
One placed in charge: a head, a chief, particularly:
An English and Scottish surname originating as an occupation; variant form Tailor.
A label for telephone number.
(American spelling) (Canadian spelling, alternative) Alternative form of centimetre.
Resembling or characteristic of a fort.
(metrology) An SI unit of length equal to 10⁻² metres. Symbol: cm
A surname.
A person or musical instrument that performs the alto part.
A surname from Vietnamese.
(chiefly US) Of a cup of coffee: smaller than venti but larger than tall, usually 16 ounces (~ 455 ml).
(Judaism) The son of Yitzhak and Rivka, twin brother of Esav, and patriarch of the Jews.
A male given name from Hebrew.
(US) Any of various tall grasses that flourish in prairie with relatively abundant water.
large or big relative to something else
(N)
a greatest hits album by the English pop rock band Duran Duran, released in 1998.
(music, plural "grands") A grand piano
a landline, wireless and general telecommunications services provider, primarily based in the United States.
any of various grasses that are tall and that flourish with abundant moisture
A tall tower, often on a church, normally topped with a spire.
(sometimes figurative) assurgent, ascending
Raised, usually above ground level.
Characteristic of a spindle; slender and of weak appearance.
Extremely large or on a great scale.
Pertaining to vertigo (in all its meanings).