"Highness" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Highnesses [plural]
Etymology: Calque of Italian altezza, from Late Latin altitia, from altus + -itia, equivalent to high + -ness. See highness for formation of the English term. Etymology templates: {{calque|en|it|altezza}} Calque of Italian altezza, {{der|en|LL.|altitia}} Late Latin altitia, {{af|la|altus|-itia|nocat=1}} altus + -itia, {{suffix|en|high|ness}} high + -ness, {{m|en|highness}} highness Head templates: {{en-noun}} Highness (plural Highnesses)
  1. The style of a prince, princess or someone of equivalent rank. Derived forms: HRH, Royal Highness
    Sense id: en-Highness-en-noun-ew4pRPgE
  2. (obsolete) The style of an emperor or king. Tags: obsolete Synonyms (obsolete: style of emperor or king): Majesty (english: current)
    Sense id: en-Highness-en-noun-4FEE290Q Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 87 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ness: 24 76 Disambiguation of 'obsolete: style of emperor or king': 14 86
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (form of address): سُمُوّ (sumuww) [masculine] (Arabic), سُمُوَّة (sumuwwa) [feminine] (Arabic), высо́касць (vysókascʹ) [feminine] (Belarusian), висо́чество (visóčestvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 殿下 (diànxià) (Chinese Mandarin), 閣下 (Chinese Mandarin), 阁下 (géxià) (Chinese Mandarin), výsost [feminine] (Czech), højhed [common-gender] (Danish), hoogheid [feminine] (Dutch), сэрейчи (seŕejči) (Erzya), alteco (Esperanto), ylhäisyys (Finnish), altesse [feminine] (French), Hoheit [feminine] (German), Υψηλότατος (Ypsilótatos) [masculine] (Greek), Υψηλοτάτη (Ypsilotáti) [feminine] (Greek), altezza [feminine] (Italian), 殿下 (denka) (alt: でんか) (Japanese), 전하 (jeonha) (alt: 殿下) (Korean), augstība [feminine] (Latvian), висо́чество (visóčestvo) [neuter] (Macedonian), høyhet [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), wysokość [feminine] (Polish), alteza [feminine] (Portuguese), alteță [feminine] (Romanian), высо́чество (vysóčestvo) [neuter] (Russian), височа̀нство [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), visočànstvo [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), výsosť [feminine] (Slovak), visočanstvo [neuter] (Slovene), alteza [feminine] (Spanish), висо́кість (vysókistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
Disambiguation of 'form of address': 41 59

Inflected forms

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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "form of address",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "visočànstvo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "form of address",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "výsosť"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "form of address",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "visočanstvo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "form of address",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alteza"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "vysókistʹ",
      "sense": "form of address",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "висо́кість"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Highness"
  ],
  "word": "Highness"
}

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