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Princeton's WordNet

  1. high timenoun

    the latest possible moment

    "it is high time you went to work"

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  1. high time

    High time refers to a situation or event that is considered long overdue or needing immediate action or attention. It is typically used in contexts where there's been an unreasonable delay or when something should have happened a significant time ago. It usually carries a sense of urgency and impatience.

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  1. High Time

    High Time is a 1960 American comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and starring Bing Crosby, Fabian, and Tuesday Weld. The film is told from the perspective of a middle-aged man who enters the world of a new generation of postwar youth. In the years since its release, High Time has come to be viewed as a comedic study of the slowly emerging generation gap between the music and mores of an older generation and postwar youth, as well as an inadvertent time capsule of American adolescents and lifestyles in 1960.

Etymology and Origins

  1. High Time

    A phrase employed in the same sense as High Street, High Seas, Highway, etc.--i.e. great. The German word for wedding is Hochzeit, literally a “high time.” In America the expression for a festive occasion or a pleasurable trip is “a good time.”

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of high time in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of high time in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of high time in a Sentence

  1. Ron Wyden:

    The news of a possible foreign stingray near the White House is of particular concern giving reports that the President isn't even using a secure phone to protect his calls, the cavalier attitude toward our national security appears to be coming from the top down. It is high time for the FCC and this administration to act immediately to protect American national security.

  2. William Todts:

    Truckmakers claim we can trust them to deliver more efficient trucks, the reality is that for the last decade they've made virtually no progress in fuel efficiency while for much of that time they are alleged to have operated a cartel. It's high time we shift gears and introduce U.S.-style fuel economy standards.

  3. Simone Peter:

    Germany’s phase-out of nuclear power is a historic event and an overdue step in energy terms, it is high time that we leave the nuclear age behind and consistently organize the renewable age.

  4. Errol Campbell:

    It is high time that the government makes him our eighth national hero, bob was a reggae genius who has done more for Jamaica than most others by popularizing our music.

  5. Robin Chase:

    It's self-serving and it's also correct, it's high time for cities to start promoting true multi-modalism.


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