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▸ adjective: Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
▸ adjective: Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
▸ adjective: (baseball, of a ball) Above the batter's shoulders.
▸ adjective: Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a greater elevation, for example more mountainous, than other regions.
▸ adjective: Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
▸ adjective: Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
▸ adjective: Most exalted; foremost.
▸ adjective: Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).
▸ adjective: Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality in its supreme degree, at its zenith.
▸ adjective: Advanced in complexity (and hence potentially abstract and/or difficult to comprehend).
▸ adjective: (of an opinion or practice, obsolete outside set phrases) Extreme, excessive; now specifically very traditionalist and conservative.
▸ adjective: Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
▸ adjective: (of a lifestyle) Luxurious; rich.
▸ adjective: Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.
▸ adjective: (with "on" or "about") Keen, enthused.
▸ adjective: (of a body of water) With tall waves.
▸ adjective: Remote (to the north or south) from the equator; situated at (or constituting) a latitude which is expressed by a large number.
▸ adjective: Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
▸ adjective: Having a large or comparatively larger concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
▸ adjective: (acoustics) Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).
▸ adjective: (phonetics) Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
▸ adjective: (card games) Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
▸ adjective: (poker) Having the highest rank in a straight, flush or straight flush.
▸ adjective: (of a card or hand) Winning; able to take a trick, win a round, etc.
▸ adjective: (of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
▸ adjective: (informal) Intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.
▸ adjective: (nautical, of a sailing ship) Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
▸ adjective: (sports such as soccer) Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.
▸ adverb: In or to an elevated position.
▸ adverb: In or at a great value.
▸ adverb: At a pitch of great frequency.
▸ noun: A high point or position, literally (as, an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven) or figuratively (as, a point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best, greatest, most numerous, maximum, etc).
▸ noun: The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
▸ noun: A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
▸ noun: A drug that gives such a high.
▸ noun: (meteorology, informal) A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
▸ noun: (card games) The highest card dealt or drawn.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To rise.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ verb: (obsolete) Alternative form of hie (“to hasten”) [(intransitive, poetic) To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.]
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