Your Highness

English

Your Highness (plural Your Highnesses)

(formal) A title of respect used to address a prince or princess.
- 1818, The Quarterly Review, J. Murray, The Congo Expedition—African Discoveries, page 372:
  Does your Highness know what became of the other ?
- 1998, Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask, →ISBN, page 83:
  “Yes, madame, since your Highness has deigned to begin, will you deign to finish—”
(informal, sarcastic) A sarcastic term of address to anyone who is (or is acting) pompous or bossy.

This is the second-person form of address to a prince or princess. Verbs used with this pronoun as the subject are conjugated in the third person. The forms used when referring in the third person are His Highness (of a man) and Her Highness (of a woman).

If the prince or princess is a member of a royal family, the full form is Your Royal Highness; if a member of an imperial family (i.e., the family of an emperor or empress), the form is Your Imperial Highness.

The corresponding form for a king, queen, emperor, or empress is Your Majesty. In some modern texts, however, this distinction is lost.

a title of respect used to address a prince or princess

Arabic: سُمُوُّكَ‎ (sumuwwuka) (to masc sg), سُمُوُّكِ‎ (sumuwwuki) (to fem sg)
Catalan: Sa Altesa f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 殿下 (zh) (diànxià)
Danish: Deres Højhed
Estonian: Teie Kõrgeausus
Finnish: teidän korkeutenne
French: Votre Altesse (fr) f
German: Ihre Hoheit f
Greek: Υψηλότητα (el) (Ypsilótita)
Italian: Sua Altezza
Japanese: 殿下 (ja) (でんか, denka), 上様 (uesama)
Korean: 전하(殿下) (ko) (jeonha)
Macedonian: Ва́ше Висо́чество n (Váše Visóčestvo)
Maori: Tōu Whakaritenga
Portuguese: Vossa Alteza f
Russian: Ва́ше Высо́чество n (Váše Vysóčestvo), Ва́ше Вели́чество n (Váše Velíčestvo)
Slovak: vaša výsosť f
Spanish: Su Alteza f
Swedish: Ers Höghet c
Vietnamese: điện hạ (vi)