"elate" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ɪˈleɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-elate.wav
Rhymes: -eɪt Etymology: From Middle English elat, elate, from Latin ēlātus (“exalted, lofty”), perfect passive participle of efferō (“bring forth or out; raise; exalt”), from ē (“out of”) (short form of ex) + ferō (“carry, bear”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*telh₂- (bear)}}, {{inh|en|enm|elat}} Middle English elat, {{der|en|la|ēlātus||exalted, lofty}} Latin ēlātus (“exalted, lofty”) Head templates: {{head|en|adjective}} elate
  1. Elated; exultant.
    Sense id: en-elate-en-adj-dLCcmIGG
  2. (obsolete) Lifted up; raised; elevated. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-elate-en-adj-VqiRxh-N Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Ido translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 70 1 6 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 39 51 0 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 18 55 0 7 18 1 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 19 56 0 4 19 1 1 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 37 48 6 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 33 51 5 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 30 56 0 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Ido translations: 34 59 0 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 31 59 0 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 34 51 5 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 34 51 5 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 36 55 0 9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: elated, elation, efferent

Verb

IPA: /ɪˈleɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-elate.wav Forms: elates [present, singular, third-person], elating [participle, present], elated [participle, past], elated [past]
Rhymes: -eɪt Etymology: From Middle English elat, elate, from Latin ēlātus (“exalted, lofty”), perfect passive participle of efferō (“bring forth or out; raise; exalt”), from ē (“out of”) (short form of ex) + ferō (“carry, bear”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*telh₂- (bear)}}, {{inh|en|enm|elat}} Middle English elat, {{der|en|la|ēlātus||exalted, lofty}} Latin ēlātus (“exalted, lofty”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} elate (third-person singular simple present elates, present participle elating, simple past and past participle elated)
  1. (transitive) To make joyful or proud. Tags: transitive Translations (to make joyful or proud): въодушевявам (vǎoduševjavam) (Bulgarian), udělat radost [perfective] (Czech), zvednout náladu [perfective] (Czech), verrukken (Dutch), aanvuren (Dutch), gayigar (Ido), exaltar (Ido), exalta (Romanian), поднимать настроение (podnimatʹ nastrojenije) [imperfective] (Russian), подбодрить (podbodritʹ) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-elate-en-verb-h7q8dOvF Disambiguation of 'to make joyful or proud': 100 0
  2. (transitive) To lift up; raise; elevate. Tags: transitive Translations (to lift up, raise, elevate): ободрявам (obodrjavam) (Bulgarian), povznést [perfective] (Czech), pozdvihnout [perfective] (Czech), pozvednout [perfective] (Czech), oplaten (Dutch), levō (Latin), ēlevō (Latin), whakamanamana (Maori), ridica (Romanian), înălța (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-elate-en-verb-I0v0FKnh Disambiguation of 'to lift up, raise, elevate': 0 100

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    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "obodrjavam",
      "sense": "to lift up, raise, elevate",
      "word": "ободрявам"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to lift up, raise, elevate",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "povznést"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to lift up, raise, elevate",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "pozdvihnout"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to lift up, raise, elevate",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "pozvednout"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to lift up, raise, elevate",
      "word": "oplaten"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to lift up, raise, elevate",
      "word": "levō"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to lift up, raise, elevate",
      "word": "ēlevō"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to lift up, raise, elevate",
      "word": "whakamanamana"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to lift up, raise, elevate",
      "word": "ridica"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to lift up, raise, elevate",
      "word": "înălța"
    }
  ],
  "word": "elate"
}

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    "Rhymes:English/eɪt",
    "Rhymes:English/eɪt/2 syllables",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Ido translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations"
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      "word": "elated"
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      "word": "elation"
    },
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          "ref": "1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, canto III:",
          "text": "Oh thoughtless Mortals! ever blind to Fate,\n Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate.",
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          "ref": "1895, Helen Hunt Jackson, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 28:",
          "text": "Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress.",
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        {
          "text": "c. 1707, Elijah Fenton, a letter to the Knight of the Sable Shield\nwith upper lip elate"
        },
        {
          "text": "a. 1794, William Jones, an ode in imitation of Alcaeus\nAnd sovereign law, that State's collected will, / O'er thrones and globes, elate, / Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill."
        }
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        "Lifted up; raised; elevated."
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        "(obsolete) Lifted up; raised; elevated."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
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      "rhymes": "-eɪt"
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}

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