breast-high

1. 1.

   up to the breast

   “we were standing breast-high in the water”

   Synonymsbreast-deep

Questions about breast-high

What does breast-high mean?

breast-high means "up to the breast".

How many syllables are in breast-high?

breast-high has 3 syllables and divides as bre-as-t-high under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for breast-high?

Close synonyms include breast-deep. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is breast-high a common word?

breast-high is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.