high ideal

collocation in English

meaningsofhighandideal

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high
adjective
uk
/haɪ/us
/haɪ/
(especially of things that are not living) being a large distance from top to bottom or a long way above the ground, or having the stated distance from top ...
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ideal
noun
uk
/aɪˈdɪəl/us
/aɪˈdiː.əl/
a principle or a way of behaving that is of a very ...
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(Definition ofhighandidealfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhigh ideal

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It also alluded to thehighidealthat science would one-day do justice to mind and its values.
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It is amazing that we can achieve such ahighidealat such a low cost.
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It is indeed ahighideal.
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That is ahighidealthat we have rarely achieved.
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It may be a vague suggestion, but it is ahighideal, and it must be possible.
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We realized it was difficult of attainment but, nevertheless, it was ahighideal.
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We have to remember that we are discussing not paid legislators, but those who have ahighidealof public service.
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Perhaps in relation to the needs of the country as assessed by his enthusiasts—and a veryhighidealis their aim—they are not very large.
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Is it thehighidealof the wage-earning classes?
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If that is ourhighidealin foreign policy, then it should be our guiding inspiration in regard to domestic affairs.
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Of course, celibacy is ahighideal, but few are capable of achieving it, except perhaps the totally religiously dedicated.
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That certainly is ahighidealtowards which we should all perseveringly strive.
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That was thehighidealwhich we kept in front of us.
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This prophecy andhighidealcan only come about if everyone is in tune with the artists who create the beauty.
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Of course, there was a sad end to thathighideal.
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That is ahighidealand something greatly prized by the students entering upon their courses.
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Their discharge of ahighidealof duty in the past, and as far as possible in the present, should be fully recognised.
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That was a veryhighideal.
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The labourer's wife had thehighidealthat her boy would be a tradesman.
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It is one of the advantages of the family that it enables that veryhighidealto be consummated.
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