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Meanings of to a higher place in English

Portuguese
acima

In or to a place that is higher.

acima
Synonyms
Examples for "above"
Examples for "above"
1
The Good Book preaches Order above all things; therefore Order is good.
Runemarks
2
House speaker Paul Ryan said: No public official is above the law.
The Guardian
3
For many in southern Europe, solidarity means one thing above all: eurobonds.
The Irish Times
4
CONS: Serious crime rate and cost of living both above national average.
Forbes
5
Though not above vote fraud, he considered violence counterproductive; it disturbed unnecessarily.
Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan...
1
Ahead of them, the Explorer turned left, going higher up the road.
The Lost World
2
There is yet another field of crosses higher up on the left.
The Guardian
3
He used to look down on me from so much higher up.
Hook
4
Kekwick returned in the afternoon, having found water higher up the creek.
Explorations in Australia / The Journals of John McDouall Stuart...
5
Whitefoot crept out and climbed a little higher up in the tree.
Whitefoot the Wood Mouse
1
We felt blessed, in a higher place than the whole rest of the world.
Climbing Magazine
2
Fiona-dressedin lavender, belted with silver-stoodin a higher place before me and somewhat to my right.
The Great Book of Amber
Usage of to a higher place in English
1
We immediately hastened to a higher place, where the scene was equally impressive.
The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch
2
Amid the darkness and grief, Simon rose to a higher place, and soon got back on stage.
News.com.au
3
Bausch could do that to you: take you to a higher place that you didn't even know existed.
The Guardian
4
For now we are taking them to a higher place in the hospital but they cannot stay there.
Reuters
5
She had made it a stepping-stone to a higher place in society than the one to which she was born.
Cast Adrift
6
She is without a doubt the dominating force here, carrying a relatively uninspired track to a higher place, as she so often does.
The Guardian
7
By the bringing in of a lower class of labor he was elevated to a higher place, but never driven out of work.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
8
The very genius of our democracy is that we want each individual to come up out of his place to a higher place.
The Canadian Commonwealth
9
And lighting up lights they all gathered round about her: and she went up to a higher place, and commanded silence to be made.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
10
"Oh, certainly; the law is to be my sphere of action-orrather, my stepping-stoneto a higher place."
The Last Penny and Other Stories
11
"No," said Edward; "he was promoted by the Mormon priesthood to a higher place in the church, as one who had done a praiseworthy deed."
The Two Elsies / A Sequel to Elsie at Nantucket
Translations for to a higher place
Portuguese
acima