"elevate" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈɛləveɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-elevate.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more elevate [comparative], most elevate [superlative]
Etymology: From Latin ēlevātus, past participle of ēlevāre (“to raise, lift up”), from ē- (“out”) + levāre (“to make light, to lift”), from levis (“light”); see levity and lever. Etymology templates: {{cln|en|undefined derivations}}, {{uder|en|la|ēlevātus}} Latin ēlevātus, {{m|la|ēlevāre||to raise, lift up}} ēlevāre (“to raise, lift up”), {{m|la|ē-||out}} ē- (“out”), {{m|la|levāre||to make light, to lift}} levāre (“to make light, to lift”), {{m|la|levis||light}} levis (“light”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} elevate (comparative more elevate, superlative most elevate)
  1. (obsolete) Elevated; raised aloft. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-elevate-en-adj-iHeYu5WR

Verb

IPA: /ˈɛləveɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-elevate.wav [Southern-England] Forms: elevates [present, singular, third-person], elevating [participle, present], elevated [participle, past], elevated [past]
Etymology: From Latin ēlevātus, past participle of ēlevāre (“to raise, lift up”), from ē- (“out”) + levāre (“to make light, to lift”), from levis (“light”); see levity and lever. Etymology templates: {{cln|en|undefined derivations}}, {{uder|en|la|ēlevātus}} Latin ēlevātus, {{m|la|ēlevāre||to raise, lift up}} ēlevāre (“to raise, lift up”), {{m|la|ē-||out}} ē- (“out”), {{m|la|levāre||to make light, to lift}} levāre (“to make light, to lift”), {{m|la|levis||light}} levis (“light”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} elevate (third-person singular simple present elevates, present participle elevating, simple past and past participle elevated)
  1. (transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position. Tags: transitive Synonyms: lift, raise Translations (raise): ὑψόω (hupsóō) (Ancient Greek), ⁧رفع⁩ (Arabic), ucaltmaq (Azerbaijani), yüksəltmək (Azerbaijani), издигам (izdigam) (Bulgarian), levi (Esperanto), altigi (Esperanto), plialtigi (Esperanto), tõstma (Estonian), nostaa (Finnish), kohottaa (Finnish), élever (French), erhöhen (German), anheben (German), 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hauhjan) (Gothic), hækka (Icelandic), ardaigh (Irish), elevare (Italian), levo (Latin), elevo (Latin), extollō (Latin), whakatairanga (Maori), kōranga (Maori), āhebban (Old English), поднима́ть (podnimátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), подня́ть (podnjátʹ) [perfective] (Russian), रोपयति (ropayati) (Sanskrit), elevar (Spanish), levantar (Spanish), subir (Spanish), 𐎐𐎌𐎀 (nšả) (Ugaritic)
    Sense id: en-elevate-en-verb-yt06XdAC Disambiguation of 'raise': 42 4 0 0 0 26 28 0 0 0
  2. (transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank. Tags: transitive Synonyms: exalt, promote
    Sense id: en-elevate-en-verb-Ca~NuTpr
  3. (transitive) To confer honor or nobility on (someone). Tags: transitive Synonyms: ennoble, exalt, honor
    Sense id: en-elevate-en-verb--N3ON1EL
  4. (transitive) To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-elevate-en-verb--eNlFTMi
  5. (transitive) To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-elevate-en-verb-3yODZU~k
  6. (transitive) To increase the intensity or degree of (something). Tags: transitive Synonyms: increase, raise
    Sense id: en-elevate-en-verb-zFHC74K8
  7. (transitive) To increase the intensity or degree of (something).
    (dated) To increase the loudness of (a sound, especially one's voice).
    Tags: dated, transitive Synonyms: increase, raise
    Sense id: en-elevate-en-verb-OHDMBbGz
  8. (transitive, obsolete) To lift the spirits of (someone) Tags: obsolete, transitive Synonyms: cheer up, elate Translations (elate): въздигам (vǎzdigam) (Bulgarian), ĝojigi (Esperanto)
    Sense id: en-elevate-en-verb-R4qE4S5j Disambiguation of 'elate': 3 13 9 3 3 3 3 54 4 5
  9. (dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to make (someone) tipsy. Tags: colloquial, dated, humorous
    Sense id: en-elevate-en-verb-yVq8QE9T
  10. (obsolete, Latinism) To attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc. Tags: Latinism, obsolete Synonyms: lessen, detract, disparage
    Sense id: en-elevate-en-verb-bqpwU9qZ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: re-elevate Related terms: elevatable, elevation, elevator, elevatory Translations (increase the intensity of): повишавам (povišavam) (Bulgarian), pligrandigi (Esperanto), plialtigi (Esperanto), augmenter (French), erhöhen (German), aumentare (Italian), subir (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'increase the intensity of': 3 3 1 1 1 44 44 1 2 1

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1682, Aphra Behn, “The Roundheads or, The Good Old Cause”, in et al., London: D. Brown, act I, scene 1, page 6",
          "text": "Hard Fate of Greatness, We so highly Elevated\nAre more expos’d to Censure than the little ones,",
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          "ref": "1961, Joseph Heller, chapter 29, in Catch-22, New York: Dell, page 334",
          "text": "[…] that’s the way things go when you elevate mediocre people to positions of authority.",
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          "ref": "2014, A. D. Wright, The Early Modern Papacy",
          "text": "Much has also been made recently of the distorting effects exerted on the administration of Urban VIII by the interests of the Barberini nephews, especially of the two elevated to cardinal status.",
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          "ref": "2014, Guy W. Lecky-Thompson, Inside SharePoint 2007 Administration, page 55",
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          "text": "The traditional worldview elevates man as the pinnacle of creation.",
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          "ref": "1591, Edmund Spenser, “Virgils Gnat” in Complaints, London: William Ponsonbie, That none, whom fortune freely doth aduaunce, Himselfe therefore to heauen should eleuate",
          "text": "For loftie type of honour through the glaunce\nOf enuies dart, is downe in dust prostrate;"
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          "text": "A talented chef can elevate everyday ingredients into gourmet delights.",
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          "ref": "1682, John Dryden, “Epistle to the Whigs”, in The Medal, Edinburgh",
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          "ref": "1768, William Gilpin, chapter 1, in An Essay upon Prints, London: J. Robson, page 33",
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          "ref": "1665, Robert Boyle, Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects, London: Henry Herringman, Section 4, Chapter 4, pp. 73-74",
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          "ref": "1999, Ahdaf Soueif, chapter 18, in The Map of Love, New York: Anchor Books, published 2000",
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      "glosses": [
        "To attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Latinism",
          "Latinism"
        ],
        [
          "important",
          "important"
        ],
        [
          "remarkable",
          "remarkable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, Latinism) To attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "lessen"
        },
        {
          "word": "detract"
        },
        {
          "word": "disparage"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Latinism",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɛləveɪt/"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "⁧رفع⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "ucaltmaq"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "yüksəltmək"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "izdigam",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "издигам"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "levi"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "altigi"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "plialtigi"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "tõstma"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "nostaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "kohottaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "élever"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "erhöhen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "anheben"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "hauhjan",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌾𐌰𐌽"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "hupsóō",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "ὑψόω"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "hækka"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "ardaigh"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "elevare"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "levo"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "elevo"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "extollō"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "whakatairanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "kōranga"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "āhebban"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "podnimátʹ",
      "sense": "raise",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "поднима́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "podnjátʹ",
      "sense": "raise",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "подня́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "ropayati",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "रोपयति"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "elevar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "levantar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "subir"
    },
    {
      "code": "uga",
      "lang": "Ugaritic",
      "roman": "nšả",
      "sense": "raise",
      "word": "𐎐𐎌𐎀"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "vǎzdigam",
      "sense": "elate",
      "word": "въздигам"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "elate",
      "word": "ĝojigi"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "povišavam",
      "sense": "increase the intensity of",
      "word": "повишавам"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "increase the intensity of",
      "word": "pligrandigi"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "increase the intensity of",
      "word": "plialtigi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "increase the intensity of",
      "word": "augmenter"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "increase the intensity of",
      "word": "erhöhen"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "increase the intensity of",
      "word": "aumentare"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "increase the intensity of",
      "word": "subir"
    }
  ],
  "word": "elevate"
}

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        "2": "undefined derivations"
      },
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      "name": "cln"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "2": "la",
        "3": "ēlevātus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin ēlevātus",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "ēlevāre",
        "3": "",
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      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "3": "",
        "4": "out"
      },
      "expansion": "ē- (“out”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "levāre",
        "3": "",
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      },
      "expansion": "levāre (“to make light, to lift”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "levis",
        "3": "",
        "4": "light"
      },
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      "name": "m"
    }
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more elevate",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most elevate",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke, London: Richard Grafton, Henry VII, year 6,\nThe sayde crosse was .iii. tymes deuoutly eleuate, and at euery exaltacion, ye Moores beyng within the cytie, roared, howled and cryed,"
        }
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        "Elevated; raised aloft."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "aloft",
          "aloft"
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        "(obsolete) Elevated; raised aloft."
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        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɛləveɪt/"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "elevate"
}

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