elevated meaning: definition, quotations

elevated

adj

US /ˈɛl.əˌveɪ.dɪd/

Raised, usually above ground level.

Increased, particularly above a normal level.

Of a higher rank or status.

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Running with administrator rights.

Archaic, Euphemistic, Slang Intoxicated; drunk.

‘I hope,’ said Mr. Pickwick, ‘that our volatile friend is committing no absurdities in that dickey behind.’ ‘Oh dear, no,’ replied Ben Allen. ‘Except when he’s elevated, Bob’s the quietest creature breathing.’1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
A man whom Tom knew was returning one evening from a fair, a little elevated of course, when he met a berrin (i. e. funeral), which he joined, as is the custom; but, to his surprise, there was no one there that he knew except one man, and he had been dead for some years.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 367:

Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Of a higher register or style.

Derived terms: coelevated, elevated line, elevatedly, elevatedness, elevated railway, hyperelevated, mobile elevated work platform, nonelevated, unelevated

noun

US An elevated railway.

the Washington Street Elevated
Mr. Nunheim's home was on the fourth floor of a dark, damp, and smelly building made noisy by the Sixth Avenue elevated.1934, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 16, in The Thin Man, New York: Knopf:

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While the New York, Fordham, and Bronx Railway never built any elevateds, its franchise rights were valuable.2012, Roger P. Roess, Gene Sansone, The Wheels That Drove New York: