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say it: el-uh-VAY-shuhn
elevation is a noun meaning "the event of something being raised upward". It is pronounced /ˌɛləˈveɪʃən/ — el-uh-VAY-shuhn. It carries 8 recorded senses.
the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
“his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty”
“the artist's gifts are at their acme”
“at the height of her career”
“the peak of perfection”
“summer was at its peak”
“...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame”
“the summit of his ambition”
“so many highest superlatives achieved by man”
“at the top of his profession”
angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
a raised or elevated geological formation
distance of something above a reference point (such as sea level)
“there was snow at the higher elevations”
drawing of an exterior of a structure
the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something
“the aggrandizement of the king”
“his elevation to cardinal”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for elevation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.