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Princeton's WordNet

  1. higher(a)adjective

    advanced in complexity or elaboration

    "higher finance"; "higher mathematics"

  2. higher(a)adjective

    of education beyond the secondary level

    "higher education"; "higher learning"

Wikipedia

  1. Higher

    Higher (Free)" is a song by British band All About She. It was released on 2 December 2013. The song entered the UK Singles Chart at number twenty on the week ending 14 December 2013.

ChatGPT

  1. higher

    Higher can be defined as something that is positioned or located at a greater distance from the ground, or at a greater level or rank in a hierarchical structure. It can also refer to something that is of a superior or elevated nature in terms of quality, importance, or value.

Wikidata

  1. Higher

    "Higher" is the first single released from Creed's 1999 album, Human Clay. Vocalist Scott Stapp and singer/songwriter Steven Harang wrote the song about the power of lucid dreaming. "Higher" was Creed's major breakthrough hit which helped to place them firmly in the American mainstream music scene. It peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 on the issue dated July 22, 2000, and spent 57 weeks upon the survey, which is the longest stay for any Creed song on the Hot 100. Furthermore, it topped both the Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock tallies in the process, setting a then-record of 17 weeks for longest stay at the top of the Mainstream Rock chart. It also charted in the top five on the Adult Top 40 chart.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'higher' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #599

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'higher' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1123

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of higher in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of higher in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of higher in a Sentence

  1. Jim Schwarber:

    The weather conditions are going to continue to support active fire behavior, and there is the potential to have extreme fire behavior if higher winds develop.

  2. Donald Trump:

    He's an outstanding intellect. An outstanding judge. Respected by everybody. Never even had a little blemish on his record. The FBI has I think gone through a process six times with him over the years where he went to higher and higher positions. He is somebody very special.

  3. David Knight:

    He didn't try and revolutionize it. He just made it better and cheaper and higher quality and simpler and video-centered.

  4. Aggreko CEO Chris Weston:

    The oil price needs to be a little bit higher and higher for a reasonable period of time, 3-6 months, before you begin to see more drilling and production activity in areas where there is no power and therefore they need our services.

  5. Andrej Plenkovic:

    At this moment, we don't know exactly how many people have died. The latest information before the core cabinet meeting was seven people, we have some indication that this number may be higher, so we'll wait and see for the police's official report.

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