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Your Highness en · PRON

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Meanings

1. (formal) A title of respect used to address a prince or princess.
   • Does your Highness know what became of the other ? 1818, “The Congo Expedition—African Discoveries”, in The Quarterly Review, J. Murray, page 372:
   • When I'm up in London, everybody say Your Highness / Not because I'm royal, but because I be the highest 2021, Aminé, “Charmander”, in TWOPOINTFIVE:
   • “Yes, madame, since your Highness has deigned to begin, will you deign to finish—” 1998, Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask, →ISBN, page 83:
2. (informal, sarcastic) A sarcastic term of address to anyone who is (or is acting) pompous or bossy.
3. (historical) A title of respect used to the Lord Protector during the English Republic.

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Deriveds

Your Highnessness

Relateds

His Royal Highness · Their Royal Highnesses · Her Royal Highness · His Maj · His Imperial Highness · Her Excellency · Their Serene Highnesses · Your Maj · Her Majesty · His Serene Highness · Your Majesty · Her Imperial Majesty · Your Royal Highness · Your Serene Highness · Their Majesties · His Imperial Majesty · Her Britannic Majesty · Their Royal Majesties · His Royal Majesty · His Highness · Their Holinesses · His Holiness · Your Imperial Majesty · His Excellency · Her Serene Highness · Her Highness · His Britannic Majesty · Your Britannic Majesty · Their Excellencies · Their Highnesses · Your Excellency · Their Imperial Highnesses · Their Britannic Majesties · Their Imperial Majesties · Her Imperial Highness · Her Royal Majesty · Her Holiness · Your Holiness · Your Royal Majesty · Her Maj · Your Imperial Highness · His Majesty

Translations (26)

ja 殿下 (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · el Υψηλότητα (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · az zati-aliləriniz (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · ja 上様 (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · ar سُمُوُّكِ (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · sk vaša výsosť (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · da Deres Højhed (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · he הוֹד מַעְלָתוֹ (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · ar سُمُوُّكَ (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · ru Ва́ше Высо́чество (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · sv Ers höghet (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · fi teidän korkeutenne (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · et Teie Kõrgeausus (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · pt Vossa Alteza (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · ko 전하 (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · vi điện hạ (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · ca Sa Altesa (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · mi Tōu Whakaritenga (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · cmn 殿下 (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · fr Votre Altesse (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · it Sua Altezza (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · es Su Alteza (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · mk Ва́ше Висо́чество (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · cy Eich Uchelder (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · ru Ва́ше Вели́чество (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess) · de Ihre Hoheit (a title of respect used to address a prince or princess)