"Your Highness" meaning in English

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Pronoun

Forms: Your Highnesses [plural]
Head templates: {{head|en|pronoun|plural|Your Highnesses|head=Your Highness}} Your Highness (plural Your Highnesses)
  1. (formal) A title of respect used to address a prince or princess. Tags: formal Translations (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess): سُمُوُّكَ (sumuwwuka) (Arabic), سُمُوُّكِ (sumuwwuki) (Arabic), Sa Altesa [feminine] (Catalan), 殿下 (diànxià) (Chinese Mandarin), Deres Højhed (Danish), Teie Kõrgeausus (Estonian), teidän korkeutenne (Finnish), Votre Altesse [feminine] (French), Ihre Hoheit [feminine] (German), Υψηλότητα (Ypsilótita) (Greek), Sua Altezza (Italian), 殿下 (denka) (alt: でんか) (Japanese), 上様 (uesama) (Japanese), 전하 (jeonha) (alt: 殿下) (Korean), Ва́ше Висо́чество (Váše Visóčestvo) [neuter] (Macedonian), Tōu Whakaritenga (Maori), Vossa Alteza [feminine] (Portuguese), Ва́ше Высо́чество (Váše Vysóčestvo) [neuter] (Russian), Ва́ше Вели́чество (Váše Velíčestvo) [neuter] (Russian), vaša výsosť [feminine] (Slovak), Su Alteza [feminine] (Spanish), Ers Höghet [common-gender] (Swedish), điện hạ (Vietnamese), Eich Uchelder (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-Your_Highness-en-pron-84Rla~4P Related terms: Third person (english: Her) [feminine], Third person (english: His) [masculine], Second person (english: Your), Third person (english: Their) [plural], Her Britannic Majesty, His Britannic Majesty, Your Britannic Majesty, Her Excellency, His Excellency, Your Excellency, Her Highness, His Highness, Her Imperial Highness, His Imperial Highness, Your Imperial Highness, Her Imperial Majesty, His Imperial Majesty, Your Imperial Majesty, Her Maj, His Maj, Your Maj, Her Majesty, His Majesty, Your Majesty, Their Majesties, Her Royal Highness, His Royal Highness, Your Royal Highness, Their Royal Highnesses, Her Royal Majesty, His Royal Majesty, Your Royal Majesty, Her Serene Highness, His Serene Highness Disambiguation of 'a title of respect used to address a prince or princess': 98 2
  2. (informal, sarcastic) A sarcastic term of address to anyone who is (or is acting) pompous or bossy. Tags: informal, sarcastic
    Sense id: en-Your_Highness-en-pron-ixEnA8mc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English pronouns, English terms of address, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 78 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 36 64 Disambiguation of English pronouns: 42 58 Disambiguation of English terms of address: 21 79 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 26 74

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      "sense": "a title of respect used to address a prince or princess",
      "word": "سُمُوُّكَ"
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      "lang": "Arabic",
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      "word": "سُمُوُّكِ"
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      "sense": "a title of respect used to address a prince or princess",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Sa Altesa"
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      "sense": "a title of respect used to address a prince or princess",
      "word": "殿下"
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      "lang": "Estonian",
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      "word": "teidän korkeutenne"
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      "word": "Votre Altesse"
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      "sense": "a title of respect used to address a prince or princess",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Ihre Hoheit"
    },
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      "sense": "a title of respect used to address a prince or princess",
      "word": "Υψηλότητα"
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      "word": "Sua Altezza"
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      "word": "殿下"
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      "word": "上様"
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      "word": "전하"
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      "roman": "Váše Visóčestvo",
      "sense": "a title of respect used to address a prince or princess",
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      "word": "Ва́ше Висо́чество"
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "a title of respect used to address a prince or princess",
      "word": "Tōu Whakaritenga"
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      "sense": "a title of respect used to address a prince or princess",
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      "word": "Vossa Alteza"
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Váše Vysóčestvo",
      "sense": "a title of respect used to address a prince or princess",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Ва́ше Высо́чество"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Váše Velíčestvo",
      "sense": "a title of respect used to address a prince or princess",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Ва́ше Вели́чество"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "a title of respect used to address a prince or princess",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vaša výsosť"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a title of respect used to address a prince or princess",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Su Alteza"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a title of respect used to address a prince or princess",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "Ers Höghet"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a title of respect used to address a prince or princess",
      "word": "điện hạ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "a title of respect used to address a prince or princess",
      "word": "Eich Uchelder"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Your Highness"
}
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  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": to masc sg vs. sumuwwuka",
  "path": [
    "Your Highness"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "pronoun",
  "title": "Your Highness",
  "trace": ""
}

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  "called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": to fem sg vs. sumuwwuki",
  "path": [
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  "subsection": "pronoun",
  "title": "Your Highness",
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}

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