higher

To make higher; to raise or increase in amount or quantity.

Adjective

  1. comparative form of high: more high

Adverb

  1. comparative form of high: more high

Noun

  1. A national school-leaving examination and university entrance qualification.

Forms

highers

Derived

advanced higher

Verb

  1. To make higher; to raise or increase in amount or quantity.
    • It is a fact that other countries have not followed our example, nay, that they have in fact, in some cases, highered the duties upon the admission of our goods. But what has been the result of that policy upon the...
    • I am glad also that my hon. friend the Minister of Finance had the firmness to oppose all these influences to make him change his policy, and I hope, for the good of the country and the blessing of the Dominion, that...
  2. To ascend.

Forms

highers highering highered

Derived

Coity Higher Higher Bockhampton Higher Buxton Higher Greenway Higher Heysham Higher Hurst Higher Macdonald highermost higherness higher-order higher-speed rail Llanrhidian Higher Newcastle Higher