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Definition of Higher

1. Adjective. Advanced in complexity or elaboration. "Higher mathematics"

2. Adjective. Of education beyond the secondary level. "Higher learning"

Definition of Higher

1. Adjective. (comparative of high#Adjective high lang=English POS=adjective) ¹

2. Adverb. (comparative of high#Adjective high lang=English POS=adverb) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Higher

1. high [adj] - See also: high

Lexicographical Neighbors of Higher

highbrow highbrowed highbrowism highbrowisms highbrowness highbrows highbush highbush blueberries highbush blueberry highbush cranberry

highchair highchairs highcut highed highen higher (current term) higher(a) higher-order function higher-order functions higher-ranking

higher-resolution higher-risk higher-up higher-ups higher being higher cognitive process higher consciousness higher criticism higher education higher heating value

Literary usage of Higher

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Oecd Economic Surveys by OECD Economic Surveys (1975)
"Encouraging access to higher education Enrolment in higher education is currently about one-third of the 18-24 year-old population. ..."

2. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"Everywhere in social life one finds abstractions. now of a higher type, now of a lower. Social life is a proa uct of thought and ideation, ..."

3. An Elementary Treatise on Arithmetic by Silvestre François Lacroix, John Farrar (1821)
"From what has been said, the following rules are sufficiently evident. To reduce a number from a lower denomination to the decimal of a higher, ..."

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