high heel
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2.7
- noun
- /haɪ hiːl/
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- I told you not to wear high heels during the opening scenes.
- high heel shoes
I've broken my high heel twice while working retail.
- I've broken my high heel twice while working retail.
- So to me, success was a business suit, high heels, corner office.
- And again, I mean, I think the sexiest thing, and this is probably like some unresolved misogyny is I love women in high heels.
- And just the side of us was the ladies pocketbook and a high heel shoe and someone's sneaker with nobody with it.
- What I would recommend is a nice pair of medium to high heel leather black.
- It was this female fashion staple was originally created for gentlemen bra stockings high heels or corset corset corset.
- Can't run high heels are hard walking long distances, I'm going to start to limp.
- I mean, you know, many people do high heels are, I think are a good example probably who high heels just as a garment.
Examples
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I actually broke the heel off of my high heel just standing at the cash wrap.
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My favorite pair of high heels is missing!
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You get to wear high heels and look nice all day.
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So, I got on this red dress and these high heels, right?
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I know your feet must be killing you in those high heels.
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The next thing, he's coming home with a pair of high heels.
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She was wearing a pair of red shoes with high heels.
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There's no way a career waitress comes to work in high heels.
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Each and every day, Christine and Julie dance backward in high heels and make the whole production look effortless.
Academic text (2015) -
She was wearing a pair of elegant shoes with high heels to the gala.
Synonyms
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2.7
Shoes for women with a raised back that lifts the back of the foot above the toes
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4.8
A women's high shoe with a very thin heel
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2.7
A shoe with a high heel that makes the heel higher than the toes
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4.4
A very thin, high part under women's shoes that ends in a small point
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5.0
A very high, thin part at the back of a woman's shoe that ends in a small point
A fairly high, narrow part at the back of a shoe that curves inward
The thin raised back of a woman's shoe is narrow at base, wider in middle, narrow at top
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a type of shoe with a tall, raised heel' is directly and compositionally derived from 'high' (tall) modifying 'heel' (the rear part of a shoe), so the compound is semantically transparent. This adjective+noun pattern is common across languages and in English, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
High heel comes from the simple idea of a shoe with a high heel that lifts the back of the foot. That's why it means 'a shoe with a tall, raised heel' today.