HEIGHTS

[plural] [noun]Heights are high places, or the top of hills.Machine guns were mounted along the heights behind the town.Don't go up the tower if you're afraid of heights.(figurative) The plan was to take the commanding heights of the economy and put them under public control.(figurative often humorous) Her husband rose to the dizzy/giddy/lofty heights of transport minister.(figurative) Share prices scaled new heights yesterday.The value of tourism to the country attained its greatest heights (= height) in the late 1980s and later declined.He reached the heights (= height) of his profession at the age of 35.