food elevator

1. 1.

   a small elevator used to convey food (or other goods) from one floor of a building to another

   Synonymsdumbwaiter

   Broaderelevator

Questions about food elevator

What does food elevator mean?

food elevator means "a small elevator used to convey food (or other goods) from one floor of a building to another".

What is another word for food elevator?

Close synonyms include dumbwaiter. 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 food elevator a common word?

food elevator is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.