hault
English
Etymology
Old French hault, French haut. See haughty.
Adjective
hault (comparative more hault, superlative most hault)
- (obsolete) Lofty; haughty.
- Edmund Spenser
- Through support of countenance proud and hault
- Edmund Spenser
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hault in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- Lauth
Luxembourgish
Verb
hault
- third-person singular present indicative of haulen
- second-person plural present indicative of haulen
- second-person plural imperative of haulen
Middle French
Alternative forms
- haut, ault
Etymology
From Old French haut, halt, from a conflation of Latin altus and Frankish *hauh, *hōh (“high, tall, elevated”).
Adjective
hault m (feminine singular haulte, masculine plural hauls, feminine plural haultes)
- high; high up
- (figuratively) high; elevated
Descendants
- French: haut