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Is elevate a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word elevate is a Scrabble US word. The word elevate is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is elevate a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word elevate is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

E1L1E1V4A1T1E1

Is elevate a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word elevate is a Words With Friends word. The word elevate is worth 12 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

ELEVATE,

6-letter words (3 found)

VALETE,VELATE,VELETA,

5-letter words (6 found)

ELATE,LEAVE,LEVEE,TELAE,VALET,VEALE,

4-letter words (21 found)

ALEE,AVEL,EALE,EAVE,EVET,LATE,LAVE,LEAT,LEET,LEVA,LEVE,TAEL,TALE,TEAL,TEEL,TELA,TELE,VALE,VEAL,VELA,VELE,

3-letter words (24 found)

ALE,ALT,ATE,AVE,EAT,EEL,ELT,ETA,EVE,LAT,LAV,LEA,LEE,LET,LEV,TAE,TAV,TEA,TEE,TEL,VAE,VAT,VEE,VET,

2-letter words (10 found)

AE,AL,AT,EA,EE,EL,ET,LA,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 66 words from elevate according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of elevate

elevate

Etymology

From Latin ēlevātus, past participle of ēlevāre (“to raise, lift up”), from ē- (“out”) + levāre (“to make light, to lift”), from levis (“light”); see levity and lever.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛləveɪt/

Verb

elevate (third-person singular simple present elevates, present participle elevating, simple past and past participle elevated)

  1. (transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position.
    Synonyms: lift, raise
    Antonyms: drop, lower
    • 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 25, 12 June, 1750, Volume 1, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, p. 216,[2]
      We know that a few strokes of the axe will lop a cedar; but what arts of cultivation can elevate a shrub?
  2. (transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
    Synonyms: exalt, promote
    Antonym: demote
    1. (computing) To temporarily grant a program additional security privileges to the system to perform a privileged action (usually on the program's request).
  3. (transitive) To confer honor or nobility on (someone).
    Synonyms: ennoble, exalt, honor
    • 1591, Edmund Spenser, “Virgils Gnat” in Complaints, London: William Ponsonbie,[5]
      That none, whom fortune freely doth aduaunce,
      Himselfe therefore to heauen should eleuate:
      For loftie type of honour through the glaunce
      Of enuies dart, is downe in dust prostrate;
  4. (transitive) To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value.
  5. (transitive) To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things.
  6. (transitive) To increase the intensity or degree of (something).
    Synonyms: increase, raise
    Antonyms: decrease, diminish, lower, reduce
    1. (dated) To increase the loudness of (a sound, especially one's voice).
  7. (transitive, obsolete) To lift the spirits of (someone)
    Synonyms: cheer up, elate
    Antonyms: depress, sadden
    • 1759, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and J. Bell, Part 1, Section 2, Chapter 1, p. 20,[9]
      It gives us the spleen […] to see another too happy or too much elevated, as we call it, with any little piece of good fortune.
  8. (dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to make (someone) tipsy.
  9. (obsolete, Latinism) To attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc.
    Synonyms: lessen, detract, disparage
    • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, London: Richard Royston, Volume 1, Chapter 4, Rule 2, p. 126,[11]
      […] the Arabian Physicians […] endevour to elevate and lessen the thing [i.e. belief in the virgin birth of Jesus], by saying, It is not wholly beyond the force of nature, that a Virgin should conceive […]

Derived terms

  • re-elevate

Related terms

  • elevatable
  • elevation
  • elevator
  • elevatory

Translations

Adjective

elevate (comparative more elevate, superlative most elevate)

  1. (obsolete) Elevated; raised aloft.
    • 1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke, London: Richard Grafton, Henry VII, year 6,[12]
      The sayde crosse was .iii. tymes deuoutly eleuate, and at euery exaltacion, ye Moores beyng within the cytie, roared, howled and cryed,

Further reading

  • “elevate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “elevate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

elevate

  1. inflection of elevare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

elevate f pl

  1. feminine plural of elevato

Latin

Verb

ēlevāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēlevō

Spanish

Verb

elevate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of elevar combined with te

Source: wiktionary.org