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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
exaltation is a noun meaning "a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
“listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture”
the location of a planet in the zodiac at which it is believed to exert its maximum influence
a flock of larks (especially a flock of larks in flight overhead)
the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god)
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 exaltation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.