Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word high-standing.
Examples
-
The details of jewelry, shields and headdresses suggest the figures represent high-standing officials of some kind, perhaps the astronomers themselves.
Did you know? Mexico's ancient astronomers had sophisticated calendars 2008
-
Cecil remembered him as a slender young man, with his shock of coal-black hair, his deep, dark eyes, and the high-standing clerical collar he always wore. . .
Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010
-
The details of jewelry, shields and headdresses suggest the figures represent high-standing officials of some kind, perhaps the astronomers themselves.
Did you know? Mexico's ancient astronomers had sophisticated calendars 2008
-
"They were talking cost and special effects and everything, but then it got to a woman who was a commissioner there," who apparently had a high-standing, despite her about to take maternity leave.
Grant Morrison’s ‘The Filth’: Too Filthy For American TV, But What About A Movie? 2008
-
They clambered up the tottering walls, they clung in wreaths and groups about the high-standing pillars.
-
They were painted vermilion all over their nearly naked bodies, and were dancing enthusiastically to the good old rump-a-tump-tump-tump tune, played energetically by an old gentleman on a long, high-standing, white-and-black painted drum.
-
"FOREIGN AFFAIRS" MAGAZINE: He does indeed represent very high-standing elements within the Communist regime, only very high-standing folks would have these documents in the first place.
-
The shirt was piped in black and had a high-standing collar, like the ones worn by the cadets at West Point.
Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991
-
The shirt was piped in black and had a high-standing collar, like the ones worn by the cadets at West Point.
Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991
-
The shirt was piped in black and had a high-standing collar, like the ones worn by the cadets at West Point.
Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.