cubit

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

From Middle English cubite, from Latin cubitum (“elbow, cubit”). Doublet of cubitus, covado, and codo.

The dapper poet’s face was a cubit long. — A Victor of Salamis, William Stearns Davis
They certainly had not added a cubit to his stature. — What Will People Say? A Novel, Rupert Hughes
Some of these trees in this region were even thirty cubits high. — The Anabasis of Alexander : $b or, The history of the wars and conquests of Alexander the Great, Arrian

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