View source for hauteur

==English==

===Etymology===
From {{bor|en|fr|hauteur}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/oʊˈtɝ/|a=GenAm}}
* {{IPA|en|/ɔːˈtɜː/|/əʊˈtɜː/|a=RP}}
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hauteur.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɜː(ɹ)|s=2}}
* {{homophones|en|auteur}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun|~}}

# [[haughtiness|Haughtiness]] or [[arrogance]]; [[loftiness]].
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Sketches of Life and Character|passage=Who ever went into a public office, and was treated, as he is very apt to be, with the most offensive '''hauteur''' by some saucy, well-paid official, without feeling the desire to kick him rising strong within him?|year=1842|author=Alexander Campbell|page=11|chapter=Kickable People|url=https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Sketches_of_Life_and_Character/N876JCYltgkC?hl=en&gbpv=0}}
#* {{RQ:Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing|chapter=XII|passage=“What's happened, young Herring?” I think for a moment he was about to draw himself up with '''hauteur''' and say he would prefer, if we didn't mind, not to discuss his private affairs, but when he was half-way up he caught Aunt Dahlia's eye and returned to position one.}}
#* '''1992,''' [[w:Joyce Carol Oates|Joyce Carol Oates]], ''[[w:Black Water (novella)|Black Water]]'', Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 31
#*: [A]n angered motorist sounded his horn, but The Senator took no heed: not out of arrogance or '''hauteur''' but, simply, because he took no heed.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1997|author=w:David Foster Wallace|chapter=A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again|title=A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again|publisher=Little, Brown Book Group|edition=Kindle|passage=I imagine the ''Dreamward''’s Hotel Manager to be an avuncular Norwegian with a rag sweater and a soothing odor of Borkum Rif about him, a guy w/o sunglasses or '''hauteur''' {{...}}}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=w:John McWhorter|title=Saint Maya|work=The New Republic|date=2014-05-28|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/117924/saint-maya-angelou-product-blissfully-bygone-america|issn=0028-6583|passage=Sometimes the '''hauteur''' is nothing more dire than a kind of black-mother wit.}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:Collins English Dictionary}}
* {{R:Lexico|pos=n}}
* {{R:OneLook}}
* {{R:Merriam-Webster Online}}
* {{R:TheFreeDictionary}}

==French==

===Etymology===
From {{af|fr|haut|-eur}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{fr-asph}} {{fr-IPA}}
* {{audio|fr|Fr-hauteur.ogg|a=Paris|text=la hauteur}}
* {{rhymes|fr|œʁ}}
* {{homophones|fr|auteur|auteurs|hauteurs}}

===Noun===
{{fr-noun|f}}

# [[height]], [[altitude]]
#: {{ux|fr|La '''hauteur''' du Mont Everest est de 8.848 mètres.|The '''height''' of Mount Everest is 8,848 meters.}}
# [[arrogance]]
# {{lb|fr|geometry}} [[height]]
#: {{ux|fr|La '''hauteur''' d'un parallélogramme est perpendiculaire à sa base.|The '''height''' of a parallelogram is perpendicular to its base.}}
# {{lb|fr|music}} [[pitch]]

====Derived terms====
* {{l|fr|à hauteur de}}
* {{l|fr|à la hauteur de}}
* {{l|fr|être à la hauteur}}
* {{l|fr|hauteur de vanité}}
* {{l|fr|prendre de la hauteur}}
* {{l|fr|saut en hauteur}}
* {{l|fr|sauteur en hauteur}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|fr|haut}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:fr:TLFi}}