1. highgate - Noun
2. Highgate - Proper noun
(countable) A habitational surname from Old English.
A suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
A town in Franklin County, Vermont, United States.
A suburb of Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
highgate (plural highgates)
(UK dialectal) A highway.
(uncountable) A placename:
An upper-class suburb of London, in the borough of Haringey, borough of Camden and borough of Islington, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2887).
A village in Hawkhurst, Tunbridge Wells district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ7630).
An inner city area of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0785).
A village in Walsall, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0197).
A settlement on the north coast of Jamaica.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgWaiting for a 136 bus from Highgate station to Muswell Hill Broadway on a misty evening in February is a bit like lurking outside the gates of purgatory. Tom Baker
As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill, As I came down the Highgate Hill I met the sun's bravado, And saw below me, fold on fold, Grey to pearl and pearl to gold, This London like a land of old, The land of Eldorado. Henry Howarth Bashford
He would have liked to say goodbye, Shake hands with many friends. In Highgate now his finger-bones Stick through his finger-ends.You, God, who treat him thus and thus, Say, "Save his soul and pray." You ask me to believe You and I only see decay. John Betjeman
I don't really go to clubs anymore. I'm actually quite settled. Living in Highgate with my dog and my husband and my daughter! I'm not a hell-raiser. But don't burst the bubble. Behind closed doors, for sure, I'm a hell-raiser. Kate Moss
As for the experiment itself, it succeeded excellently well; but in the journey between London and Highgate, I was taken with such a fit of casting as I know not whether it were the Stone, or some surfeit or cold, or indeed a touch of them all three. Source: Internet
Coleridge died in Highgate, London on 25 July 1834 as a result of heart failure compounded by an unknown lung disorder, possibly linked to his use of opium. Source: Internet