Definition of hauteur in English:

hauteur

noun əʊˈtəːhoʊˈtər

mass noun

Proud haughtiness of manner.
倨傲，傲慢的态度
she swept into the room with formidable hauteur
his natural coolness and aristocratic hauteur
Example sentencesExamples
- Middle class people can claim neither the heroic struggles of the proletariat nor the cultural hauteur and effortless savoir faire of the aristocracy.
- However, with the addition of an arcade of brand-name boutiques, the Raffles' former aristocratic hauteur seems to have been traded for a sort of self-conscious post-yuppie consumerism.
- The detached hauteur she assumes as she goads Don José into murder is fascinating and suggests an unusually compelling conception of this problem role.
- His autocratic tendencies and hauteur towards the ex-convict population also brought him into conflict with his Legislative Council and sometimes with his masters in the Colonial Office.
- But they soon got used to my low-key presence and stared at me with supercilious hauteur.
- Daphne lifts her chin in an overblown attempt at hauteur and heads into the closet to fetch her coat.
- Ramirez bowed his head in reverence, seeing once more the profound mind that lurked beneath Rakael's veneer of bickering and hauteur.
- The tiny, perfect form of Rakael shifted, cuddling more tightly against his firm warmth in her sleep, emerald eyes shut and her face relaxed from imperial hauteur to an open, curiously innocent expression.
- Cynics might suggest that the jackets were commissioned to enhance the cultivated hauteur of the members.
- Gone was the better-than-thou hauteur and proud carriage synonymous to Adrienne Clarke.
- The West must discard its hauteur, its double standards, its superiority complex and its cultural zeal.
- No more hiding behind a façade of hauteur, that's for poseurs.
- Johan Kobborg played Prince Desire with the grandiloquence and hauteur he is so capable of.
- By all reports straight and happily partnered with a female politician, Rickman nonetheless has the kind of suave, queeny hauteur any Noel Coward manque would kill for.
- Despite his much vaunted lack of emotional attachment to the trappings of title, the marquis has been cited as conducting his business with a distinctly aristocratic hauteur.
- Gathered together on wicker furniture are two women and a man, posing a bit as they react to the stormy weather conditions outside with a bit of stiff-necked hauteur.
- He exudes a sense of self-possession and hauteur that leads critics in the media and among his party to label him arrogant.
- He grinned at her, she smiled back, the first expression besides sullen pouting and imperial hauteur he'd seen.
- Harriet Walter was a wonderful Lady Macbeth: a faintly neurotic society hostess with aristocratic hauteur that did not quite conceal traces of hysteria.
- At his words, the mocking hauteur disappears from her gaze.
Synonyms
haughtiness, superciliousness, loftiness, arrogance, pride, conceit, snobbery, snobbishness, superiority, self-importance, disdain, disdainfulness, condescension, contempt, scorn
airs, airs and graces
informal snootiness, uppitiness, uppishness, la-di-da
British informal side

Origin

French, from haut 'high'.

Rhymes

à deux, agent provocateur, astir, auteur, aver, bestir, blur, bon viveur, burr, Chandigarh, coiffeur, concur, confer, connoisseur, cordon-bleu, cri de cœur, cur, danseur, Darfur, defer, demur, de rigueur, deter, entrepreneur, er, err, farceur, faute de mieux, fir, flâneur, Fleur, force majeure, fur, her, infer, inter, jongleur, Kerr, littérateur, longueur, masseur, Monseigneur, monsieur, Montesquieu, Montreux, murre, myrrh, occur, pas de deux, Pasteur, per, pisteur, poseur, pot-au-feu, prefer, prie-dieu, pudeur, purr, raconteur, rapporteur, refer, répétiteur, restaurateur, saboteur, sabreur, seigneur, Sher, shirr, sir, skirr, slur, souteneur, spur, stir, tant mieux, transfer, Ur, vieux jeu, voyageur, voyeur, were, whirr

Definition of hauteur in US English:

hauteur

nounhoʊˈtərhōˈtər

Haughtiness of manner; disdainful pride.
she swept into the room with formidable hauteur
his natural coolness and aristocratic hauteur
Example sentencesExamples
- His autocratic tendencies and hauteur towards the ex-convict population also brought him into conflict with his Legislative Council and sometimes with his masters in the Colonial Office.
- The tiny, perfect form of Rakael shifted, cuddling more tightly against his firm warmth in her sleep, emerald eyes shut and her face relaxed from imperial hauteur to an open, curiously innocent expression.
- Middle class people can claim neither the heroic struggles of the proletariat nor the cultural hauteur and effortless savoir faire of the aristocracy.
- Harriet Walter was a wonderful Lady Macbeth: a faintly neurotic society hostess with aristocratic hauteur that did not quite conceal traces of hysteria.
- The detached hauteur she assumes as she goads Don José into murder is fascinating and suggests an unusually compelling conception of this problem role.
- However, with the addition of an arcade of brand-name boutiques, the Raffles' former aristocratic hauteur seems to have been traded for a sort of self-conscious post-yuppie consumerism.
- By all reports straight and happily partnered with a female politician, Rickman nonetheless has the kind of suave, queeny hauteur any Noel Coward manque would kill for.
- The West must discard its hauteur, its double standards, its superiority complex and its cultural zeal.
- Gone was the better-than-thou hauteur and proud carriage synonymous to Adrienne Clarke.
- Johan Kobborg played Prince Desire with the grandiloquence and hauteur he is so capable of.
- Cynics might suggest that the jackets were commissioned to enhance the cultivated hauteur of the members.
- He exudes a sense of self-possession and hauteur that leads critics in the media and among his party to label him arrogant.
- He grinned at her, she smiled back, the first expression besides sullen pouting and imperial hauteur he'd seen.
- Despite his much vaunted lack of emotional attachment to the trappings of title, the marquis has been cited as conducting his business with a distinctly aristocratic hauteur.
- Daphne lifts her chin in an overblown attempt at hauteur and heads into the closet to fetch her coat.
- But they soon got used to my low-key presence and stared at me with supercilious hauteur.
- Gathered together on wicker furniture are two women and a man, posing a bit as they react to the stormy weather conditions outside with a bit of stiff-necked hauteur.
- Ramirez bowed his head in reverence, seeing once more the profound mind that lurked beneath Rakael's veneer of bickering and hauteur.
- At his words, the mocking hauteur disappears from her gaze.
- No more hiding behind a façade of hauteur, that's for poseurs.
Synonyms
haughtiness, superciliousness, loftiness, arrogance, pride, conceit, snobbery, snobbishness, superiority, self-importance, disdain, disdainfulness, condescension, contempt, scorn

Origin

French, from haut ‘high’.

词汇	hauteur
释义	Definition of hauteur in English: hauteur noun əʊˈtəːhoʊˈtər mass noun Proud haughtiness of manner. 倨傲，傲慢的态度 she swept into the room with formidable hauteur his natural coolness and aristocratic hauteur Example sentencesExamples Middle class people can claim neither the heroic struggles of the proletariat nor the cultural hauteur and effortless savoir faire of the aristocracy. However, with the addition of an arcade of brand-name boutiques, the Raffles' former aristocratic hauteur seems to have been traded for a sort of self-conscious post-yuppie consumerism. The detached hauteur she assumes as she goads Don José into murder is fascinating and suggests an unusually compelling conception of this problem role. His autocratic tendencies and hauteur towards the ex-convict population also brought him into conflict with his Legislative Council and sometimes with his masters in the Colonial Office. But they soon got used to my low-key presence and stared at me with supercilious hauteur. Daphne lifts her chin in an overblown attempt at hauteur and heads into the closet to fetch her coat. Ramirez bowed his head in reverence, seeing once more the profound mind that lurked beneath Rakael's veneer of bickering and hauteur. The tiny, perfect form of Rakael shifted, cuddling more tightly against his firm warmth in her sleep, emerald eyes shut and her face relaxed from imperial hauteur to an open, curiously innocent expression. Cynics might suggest that the jackets were commissioned to enhance the cultivated hauteur of the members. Gone was the better-than-thou hauteur and proud carriage synonymous to Adrienne Clarke. The West must discard its hauteur, its double standards, its superiority complex and its cultural zeal. No more hiding behind a façade of hauteur, that's for poseurs. Johan Kobborg played Prince Desire with the grandiloquence and hauteur he is so capable of. By all reports straight and happily partnered with a female politician, Rickman nonetheless has the kind of suave, queeny hauteur any Noel Coward manque would kill for. Despite his much vaunted lack of emotional attachment to the trappings of title, the marquis has been cited as conducting his business with a distinctly aristocratic hauteur. Gathered together on wicker furniture are two women and a man, posing a bit as they react to the stormy weather conditions outside with a bit of stiff-necked hauteur. He exudes a sense of self-possession and hauteur that leads critics in the media and among his party to label him arrogant. He grinned at her, she smiled back, the first expression besides sullen pouting and imperial hauteur he'd seen. Harriet Walter was a wonderful Lady Macbeth: a faintly neurotic society hostess with aristocratic hauteur that did not quite conceal traces of hysteria. At his words, the mocking hauteur disappears from her gaze. Synonyms haughtiness, superciliousness, loftiness, arrogance, pride, conceit, snobbery, snobbishness, superiority, self-importance, disdain, disdainfulness, condescension, contempt, scorn airs, airs and graces informal snootiness, uppitiness, uppishness, la-di-da British informal side Origin French, from haut 'high'. Rhymes à deux, agent provocateur, astir, auteur, aver, bestir, blur, bon viveur, burr, Chandigarh, coiffeur, concur, confer, connoisseur, cordon-bleu, cri de cœur, cur, danseur, Darfur, defer, demur, de rigueur, deter, entrepreneur, er, err, farceur, faute de mieux, fir, flâneur, Fleur, force majeure, fur, her, infer, inter, jongleur, Kerr, littérateur, longueur, masseur, Monseigneur, monsieur, Montesquieu, Montreux, murre, myrrh, occur, pas de deux, Pasteur, per, pisteur, poseur, pot-au-feu, prefer, prie-dieu, pudeur, purr, raconteur, rapporteur, refer, répétiteur, restaurateur, saboteur, sabreur, seigneur, Sher, shirr, sir, skirr, slur, souteneur, spur, stir, tant mieux, transfer, Ur, vieux jeu, voyageur, voyeur, were, whirr Definition of hauteur in US English: hauteur nounhoʊˈtərhōˈtər Haughtiness of manner; disdainful pride. she swept into the room with formidable hauteur his natural coolness and aristocratic hauteur Example sentencesExamples His autocratic tendencies and hauteur towards the ex-convict population also brought him into conflict with his Legislative Council and sometimes with his masters in the Colonial Office. The tiny, perfect form of Rakael shifted, cuddling more tightly against his firm warmth in her sleep, emerald eyes shut and her face relaxed from imperial hauteur to an open, curiously innocent expression. Middle class people can claim neither the heroic struggles of the proletariat nor the cultural hauteur and effortless savoir faire of the aristocracy. Harriet Walter was a wonderful Lady Macbeth: a faintly neurotic society hostess with aristocratic hauteur that did not quite conceal traces of hysteria. The detached hauteur she assumes as she goads Don José into murder is fascinating and suggests an unusually compelling conception of this problem role. However, with the addition of an arcade of brand-name boutiques, the Raffles' former aristocratic hauteur seems to have been traded for a sort of self-conscious post-yuppie consumerism. By all reports straight and happily partnered with a female politician, Rickman nonetheless has the kind of suave, queeny hauteur any Noel Coward manque would kill for. The West must discard its hauteur, its double standards, its superiority complex and its cultural zeal. Gone was the better-than-thou hauteur and proud carriage synonymous to Adrienne Clarke. Johan Kobborg played Prince Desire with the grandiloquence and hauteur he is so capable of. Cynics might suggest that the jackets were commissioned to enhance the cultivated hauteur of the members. He exudes a sense of self-possession and hauteur that leads critics in the media and among his party to label him arrogant. He grinned at her, she smiled back, the first expression besides sullen pouting and imperial hauteur he'd seen. Despite his much vaunted lack of emotional attachment to the trappings of title, the marquis has been cited as conducting his business with a distinctly aristocratic hauteur. Daphne lifts her chin in an overblown attempt at hauteur and heads into the closet to fetch her coat. But they soon got used to my low-key presence and stared at me with supercilious hauteur. Gathered together on wicker furniture are two women and a man, posing a bit as they react to the stormy weather conditions outside with a bit of stiff-necked hauteur. Ramirez bowed his head in reverence, seeing once more the profound mind that lurked beneath Rakael's veneer of bickering and hauteur. At his words, the mocking hauteur disappears from her gaze. No more hiding behind a façade of hauteur, that's for poseurs. Synonyms haughtiness, superciliousness, loftiness, arrogance, pride, conceit, snobbery, snobbishness, superiority, self-importance, disdain, disdainfulness, condescension, contempt, scorn Origin French, from haut ‘high’.
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