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HIGH-CEILINGED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does high-ceilinged mean?
• HIGH-CEILINGED (adjective)
The adjective HIGH-CEILINGED has 1 sense:
1. having a higher than normal ceiling
Familiarity information: HIGH-CEILINGED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a higher than normal ceiling
Similar:
ceilinged (provided with a ceiling especially the overhead interior surface)
Context examples
It was a gloomy, high-ceilinged room at the back of the house, with a straw litter in one corner, which served apparently as a bed for the cook.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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