Your Highness
English
Pronoun
Your Highness (plural Your Highnesses)
- (formal) A title of respect used to address a prince or princess.
- 1818, “The Congo Expedition—African Discoveries”, in The Quarterly Review, J. Murray, page 372:
- Does your Highness know what became of the other ?
- 1998, Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask, →ISBN, page 83:
- “Yes, madame, since your Highness has deigned to begin, will you deign to finish—”
- (informal, sarcastic) A sarcastic term of address to anyone who is (or is acting) pompous or bossy.
Usage notes
- This is the second-person form of address to a prince or princess. Verbs used with this pronoun as the subject are conjugated in the third person. The forms used when referring in the third person are His Highness (of a man) and Her Highness (of a woman).
- If the prince or princess is a member of a royal family, the full form is Your Royal Highness; if a member of an imperial family (i.e., the family of an emperor or empress), the form is Your Imperial Highness.
- The corresponding form for a king, queen, emperor, or empress is Your Majesty. In some modern texts, however, this distinction is lost.
Translations
a title of respect used to address a prince or princess
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See also
| Third person - female (Her) | Third person - male (His) | Second person (Your) | Third person - plural (Their) |
| Her Britannic Majesty | His Britannic Majesty | Your Britannic Majesty | |
| Her Excellency | His Excellency | Your Excellency | |
| Her Highness | His Highness | Your Highness | |
| Her Imperial Highness | His Imperial Highness | Your Imperial Highness | |
| Her Imperial Majesty | His Imperial Majesty | Your Imperial Majesty | |
| Her Maj | His Maj | Your Maj | |
| Her Majesty | His Majesty | Your Majesty | Their Majesties |
| Her Royal Highness | His Royal Highness | Your Royal Highness | Their Royal Highnesses |
| Her Royal Majesty | His Royal Majesty | Your Royal Majesty |
See also
- Her Imperial Highness
- Her Serene Highness
- His Imperial Highness
- His Serene Highness
- Your Majesty
- Your Royal Highness
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