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Meaning of knee-high | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2
/ˌniːˈhaɪ/

Definitions

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see knee, high: reaching to the height of a person's knees.
    not-comparable
  2. Very young.
    figuratively, not-comparable

Equivalents

Deutsch kniehoch

Examples

“Near-synonym: knee-deep”
“knee-high by the Fourth of July”
“The corn is knee-high.”
“John Fred Gourrier had been listening to Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis, and the Spiders since he was knee-high.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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