Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - tall

(taller, tallest) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Someone or something that is tall has a greater height than is normal or average. Being tall can make you feel incredibly self-confident... The windows overlooked a lawn of tall waving grass. ADJ 2. You use tall to ask or talk about the height of someone or something. How tall are you?... I’m only 5ft tall, and I look younger than my age... ADJ: how ADJ, amount ADJ, as ADJ as, ADJ-compar than 3. If something is a tall order, it is very difficult. Financing your studies may seem like a tall order, but there is plenty of help available. PHRASE: N inflects, v-link PHR 4. If you say that someone walks tall, you mean that they behave in a way that shows that they have pride in themselves and in what they are doing. PHRASE: V inflects