elevation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   (ballet) the height of a dancer's leap or jump

   a dancer of exceptional elevation

2. 2
   noun

   distance of something above a reference point, such as sea level

   There was snow at the higher elevations.

3. 3
   noun

   the event of something being raised upward

   an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon

4. 4
   noun

   The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.

   elevation to a throne

5. 5
   noun

   That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station.

   A hill is an elevation of the ground.

6. 6
   noun

   The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude.

   the elevation of the pole, or of a star

7. 7
   noun

   An opium mixture used in the Fens to improve the mood and prevent malaria.

   […] many of the fen people used what they called "elevation." Farmer Porter was his informant concerning this habit. "What's elevation?" "Oh! ho! ho! — yow goo into druggist's shop o' market day into Cambridge, and you'll see the little boxes, doozens and doozens, a' ready on the counter; and never a ven-man's wife goo by, but what calls in for her pennord o' elevation, to last her out the week. […]

8. 8
   noun

   the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something

Etymology

From Old French elevation, from Latin elevatio, equal to elevate + -ion.