high ground

1. 1.

   a position of superiority over opponents or competitors

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Questions about high ground

What does high ground mean?

high ground means "a position of superiority over opponents or competitors".

Is high ground a common word?

high ground 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.