highlight

English

Alternative forms

• hilite (informal)

Etymology

From high + light.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈhaɪ.ˌlaɪt/

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• Rhymes: -aɪt
• Homophone: hilite
• Hyphenation: high‧lite

Noun

highlight (plural highlights)

1. An area or a spot in a drawing, painting, or photograph that is strongly illuminated.
2. An especially significant or interesting detail or event.
3. (cosmetics) A strand or spot hair dyed a different color than the rest.

Antonyms

• (especially significant or interesting detail or event): lowlight

Translations

strongly illuminated area in a drawing, painting, or photograph

• Catalan: llum (ca) f
• Finnish: kohokohta (fi), korostus (fi)
• French: rehaut (fr) m, réhaut (fr) m

• German: hervorheben (de)
• Persian: روشن (fa) (rowšan), پررنگ (fa) (porrang)

especially significant or interesting detail or event

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 花絮 (cmn) (huāxù)

• Finnish: kohokohta (fi)
• German: Highlight (de) n

cosmetology

• Hungarian: melír (hu)

• Spanish: rizo (es) m

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• Portuguese: realçe
• Spanish: enfatización, resalte
• Italian: risalto, evidenza, sottolineato

Verb

highlight (third-person singular simple present highlights, present participle highlighting, simple past and past participle highlighted)

1. (transitive) To make prominent; emphasize.
   • 2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, the Guardian:

     The Guardian has spoken to dozens of Europeans who have left, or are planning to leave. Their stories highlight surprising new migration routes – from Lisbon to Luanda, Dublin to Perth, Barcelona to Buenos Aires – as well as more traditional migration patterns.

2. (transitive) To be a highlight of.
3. (transitive) To mark (important passages of text) with a usually fluorescent marker as a means of memory retention or for later reference.

Translations

to make prominent

• Catalan: emfasitzar (ca), remarcar (ca), ressaltar (ca)
• Finnish: korostaa (fi), tähdentää (fi), painottaa (fi)
• French: mettre en valeur
• German: hervorheben (de), beleuchten (de)
• Hungarian: kiemel (hu)

• Italian: mettere in evidenza, enfatizzare
• Maori: miramira (mi)
• Norwegian: utheve (no), betone (no)
• Portuguese: realçar (pt), enfatizar (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian: наглашавати (sh) (naglašavati), истицати (sh) (isticati)

to be a highlight of

• Finnish: olla jonkun kohokohta

• French: etre la star de

to mark with a fluorescent marker

• Catalan: marcar (ca), subratllar (ca), ressaltar (ca)
• Czech: zvýraznit (cs)
• Finnish: korostaa (fi)
• French: surligner (fr)
• German: markieren (de)

• Hungarian: kiemel (hu), megjelöl (hu)
• Italian: evidenziare (it)
• Norwegian: utheve (no), markere (no)
• Portuguese: realçar (pt)
• Spanish: marcar (es)

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• Spanish: resaltar, enfatizar