elevator

Other forms of elevator

plural

elevators·

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 elevator

What does elevator mean?

elevator means "lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in elevator?

elevator has 4 syllables: el-e-va-tor. The stress falls on "el". In IPA it is /ˈɛləˌveɪtɚ/.

What is another word for elevator?

Close synonyms include lift. 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 elevator a common word?

elevator is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 elevator?

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