High Level Language

The definition of a high level language is one which is far removed from computer hardware functions, often in a form which is somewhat platform- or system-independent, and as such is highly portable.
Such languages tend to have English-like syntax; a typical sort of statement from such a language:
If x < 10 Then x = x + 1
Although it is only a single line of code in a high level language, this would be portable between many languages and systems, but would translate into many lines of machine-level instructions, which are not human-readable.