elevate

Other forms of elevate

past tense

elevated·

present participle

elevating·

third person

elevates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about elevate

What does elevate mean?

elevate means "give a promotion to or assign to a higher position". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in elevate?

elevate has 3 syllables: el-e-vate. The stress falls on "el". In IPA it is /ˈɛləˌveɪt/.

What is another word for elevate?

Close synonyms include promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is elevate a common word?

elevate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with elevate?

12 words rhyme with elevate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.