elevated

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛl.əˌveɪ.dɪd/, /ˈɛl.əˌveɪ.dəd/

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• Hyphenation: el‧e‧vated

Verb

elevated

1. simple past and past participle of elevate

Adjective

elevated (comparative more elevated, superlative most elevated)

1. Raised, usually above ground level.
2. Increased, particularly above a normal level.

   the elevated language of poetry

   The patient presented with elevated blood pressure.

3. Of a higher rank or status.
4. (computing) Running with administrator rights.

   Install all the required tools from an elevated console.

5. (archaic, slang, euphemistic) Intoxicated; drunk.
   • 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:

     ‘I hope,’ said Mr. Pickwick, ‘that our volatile friend is committing no absurdities in that dickey behind.’
     ‘Oh dear, no,’ replied Ben Allen. ‘Except when he’s elevated, Bob’s the quietest creature breathing.’

   • 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 367:

     A man whom Tom knew was returning one evening from a fair, a little elevated of course, when he met a berrin (i. e. funeral), which he joined, as is the custom; but, to his surprise, there was no one there that he knew except one man, and he had been dead for some years.

6. (linguistics) Of a higher register or style.

Derived terms

• coelevated
• elevated line
• elevatedly
• elevatedness
• elevated railway
• hyperelevated
• mobile elevated work platform
• nonelevated
• unelevated

Translations

above ground level

• Bulgarian: издигнат (bg) (izdignat)
• Catalan: elevat (ca) m
• German: gehoben (de)
• Latin: elevatus
• Macedonian: издигнат (izdignat)
• Romanian: ridicat (ro) m
• Russian: возвы́шенный (ru) (vozvýšennyj)
• Sanskrit: उच्च (sa) (ucca)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: یوكسك (yüksek)

• Uyghur: كۆتەرمە (köterme)

above normal

• Finnish: kohonnut (fi)
• French: élevé (fr)
• German: erhöht (de)
• Hindi: ऊपर (hi) (ūpar)
• Irish: ardaithe
• Latin: celsus
• Romanian: ridicat (ro) m
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: یوكسك (yüksek)

of a higher rank

• Bulgarian: възвишен (bg) (văzvišen)
• Russian: возвы́шенный (ru) (vozvýšennyj)

of a higher linguistic register

• German: gehoben (de)
• Russian: высо́кий (ru) (vysókij)

Noun

elevated (plural elevateds)

2. (US) An elevated railway.

   Alternative forms: el, El, L

   the Washington Street Elevated

   • 1934, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 16, in The Thin Man‎^[1], New York: Knopf:

     Mr. Nunheim's home was on the fourth floor of a dark, damp, and smelly building made noisy by the Sixth Avenue elevated.

   • 2012, Roger P. Roess, Gene Sansone, The Wheels That Drove New York:

     While the New York, Fordham, and Bronx Railway never built any elevateds, its franchise rights were valuable.