Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛl.əˌveɪ.dɪd/, /ˈɛl.əˌveɪ.dəd/Category:English 4-syllable words#ELEVATEDCategory:English 4-syllable words#ELEVATEDCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ELEVATED

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• Hyphenation: el‧e‧vated

Verb

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1. simple past and past participle of elevate

Adjective

elevated (comparative more elevated, superlative most elevated)Category:English lemmas#ELEVATEDCategory:English adjectives#ELEVATEDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ELEVATEDCategory:Pages with entries#ELEVATEDCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ELEVATED

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

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   The patient presented with elevated blood pressure.Category:English terms with usage examples#ELEVATED

3. Of a higher rank or status.
4. (computingCategory:en:Computing#ELEVATED) Running with administrator rights.

   Install all the required tools from an elevated console.Category:English terms with usage examples#ELEVATED

5. (archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#ELEVATED, slangCategory:English slang#ELEVATED) 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.’

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6. (linguisticsCategory:en:Linguistics#ELEVATED) Of a higher register or style.

Noun

elevated (plural elevateds)Category:English lemmas#ELEVATEDCategory:English nouns#ELEVATEDCategory:English countable nouns#ELEVATEDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ELEVATEDCategory:Pages with entries#ELEVATEDCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ELEVATED

2. (USCategory:American English#ELEVATED) An elevated railway.

   Alternative forms: el, El, L

   the Washington Street Elevated

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   • 1934, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 16, in The Thin Man‎, 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.

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   • 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.

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