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Definition of High ground
1. Noun. A position of superiority over opponents or competitors.
Definition of High ground
1. Noun. (countable or uncountable plural '''high grounds''') (&lit high ground) ¹
2. Noun. (idiomatic usually with '''the''') A position of advantage or superiority in a conflict or competition. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of High Ground
Literary usage of High ground
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"Towards the fea it is an uneven high ground all the way to Nicopolis, on which
there are many ruins ; but about the fite of Nicopolis, there are remains of ..."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1866)
"But they were in full view of where my own and General Pryor's brigades were
resting, on high ground, in an open field, on the far side of the Mountain Run. ..."
3. El Salvador at War: An Oral History of Conflict from the 1979 Insurrection edited by Max G. Manwaring, Court Prisk (1995)
"Securing the high ground Colonel Oscar Campos Anaya—One specific lesson we have
learned from all of this is that every government, at any time, ..."
4. A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States by William Dunlap, Frank William Bayley, Charles Eliot Goodspeed (1918)
"... when in London show what high ground he would eventually have taken, had hie
been continued." Extracts from an Obituary Notice. "Cincinnati. ..."
5. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1875)
"The 200 atill on high ground. Cathcart surprised from the by a tire heights behind
him. : forces.' Their false victory over the left wing of the Russian ..."
6. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... high ground. 83. The Syracusans, having overtaken him the next dar, told him
that Demosthenes and his division had ..."
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