Highness

See also: highness

English

Etymology

A translation of the Italian altezza

Noun

Highness (plural Highnesses)

1. The style of a prince, princess or someone of equivalent rank.
2. (obsolete) The style of an emperor or king.

Usage notes

• (both senses): The style is typically used with a possessive pronoun: Your Highness, Their Highnesses, et al.

Synonyms

• (obsolete: style of emperor or king): Majesty (current)

Derived terms

• HRH
• Royal Highness

Translations

form of address

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 殿下 (zh) (diànxià), 閣下／阁下 (zh) (géxià), 阁下 (zh) (géxià)

• Czech: Výsost f
• Dutch: hoogheid (nl) f
• Erzya: сэрейчи (seŕejči)
• Esperanto: alteco
• Finnish: ylhäisyys (fi)
• French: altesse (fr) f
• German: Hoheit (de) f
• Greek: Υψηλότατος m (Ypsilótatos), Υψηλοτάτη f (Ypsilotáti)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: altezza (it) f
• Japanese: 殿下 (でんか, denka)
• Korean: 전하 (ko) (jeonha)
• Latvian: augstība f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: høyhet m or f

• Portuguese: alteza (pt) f
• Romanian: alteță (ro) f
• Russian: высо́чество (ru) n (vysóčestvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: височанство n

  Roman: visočanstvo (sh) n

• Spanish: alteza (es) f