tall
/tɔl/ adjective A1- Having great vertical extent (usually reckoned from the bottom of the feet to the very top of the head) when standing. (For instance, somebody with a height of over 6 feet would generally be deemed tall.) · Being tall is an advantage in basketball.· Ostriches are the tallest living birds.
- Having its top a long way up; having a great vertical (and often greater than horizontal) extent. · Tall trees, at least about 30m high.
- Smaller than grande, usually 8 ounces (~ 230 ml).
- Hard to believe, such as a tall story or a tall tale.
Comparative taller · Superlative tallest
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His tall, bony figure gave promise of exceptional physical strength, while his great cranium and deep-set, lustrous eyes spoke no less clearly of the keen intelligence which twinkled out from behind his bushy eyebrows.
She was a beautiful woman, tall, dark, and slender, some twenty years younger than her husband; a disparity which seemed in no wise to mar the contentment of their family life.
They made his hat and boots and clothes into a small bundle and threw it into the top branches of a tall tree.
The farmer carried me under his arm to the cornfield, and set me up on a tall stick, where you found me.
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