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Meanings of high-up in English

Portuguese
dignitário
Catalan
personalitat
Spanish
personalidad

An important or influential (and often overbearing) person.

dignitário
Usage of high-up in English
1
I just loved to hear her, and she walked like high-up royalty.
Laddie: A True Blue Story
2
The penthouses have good balconies, some with high-up views of the Dublin mountains.
The Irish Times
3
The winds, the snows, and the high-up fort remained the same.
Castle Nowhere
4
The Morses were well connected and had some quite high-up relatives.
A Little Girl in Old Boston
5
He were dressed like a high-up officer in the army.
In the Days of Poor Richard
6
The party's high-ups, of course, are having none of that.
The Guardian
Translations for high-up