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HIGH SPOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high spot mean? 

HIGH SPOT (noun)
  The noun HIGH SPOT has 1 sense:

1. the most interesting or memorable partplay

  Familiarity information: HIGH SPOT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HIGH SPOT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The most interesting or memorable part

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

high spot; highlight

Context example:

the highlight of the tour was our visit to the Vatican

Hypernyms ("high spot" is a kind of...):

detail; item; particular (a small part that can be considered separately from the whole)


 Context examples 


Opportunity reached the northern end of the montmorillonite-bearing exposure last month, at a high spot called "Pillinger Point."

(Aluminum-Bearing Site on Mars Draws NASA Visitor, NASA)

When the sun grew so high this morning that it struck the top of the great gateway opposite my window, the high spot which it touched seemed to me as if the dove from the ark had lighted there.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)



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