HAUTE
What does "HAUTE" mean?
High-class or fashionably elegant, especially in cuisine or couture.
Meanings
- Elegant, high-class, or sophisticated, typically used in borrowed French phrases. The restaurant served haute cuisine at staggering prices. formal
Did you know?
- The silent H in 'haute' is a fake: the word comes from Latin 'altus', which never had an h - medieval scribes grafted one on under Germanic influence.
Word origin
From French 'haute', the feminine form of 'haut' ('high'), from Latin 'altus' ('high'); seen in English in phrases like 'haute couture' and 'haute cuisine'.
Remember it
HAUTE sounds like 'oat' but means 'high' - picture a haute oat, the snootiest grain at the fashion show.
A little poem
The h stays silent, the price does not;
haute is just 'high' in a thinner coat.
couplet
Wordplay
- I tried haute cuisine and got one tiny plate. Turns out the 'haute' was the only thing they served in large quantities.
What it teaches
Elegance whispers; the louder a thing insists it is high-class, the lower it usually sits.
Quick facts
What does HAUTE mean?
High-class or fashionably elegant, especially in cuisine or couture.
Is HAUTE a valid word?
Yes — HAUTE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is HAUTE?
HAUTE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does HAUTE come from?
From French 'haute', the feminine form of 'haut' ('high'), from Latin 'altus' ('high'); seen in English in phrases like 'haute couture' and 'haute cuisine'.
What can HAUTE teach us?
Elegance whispers; the louder a thing insists it is high-class, the lower it usually sits.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.