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Elevation

The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character.

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Narrower term 16

Altitude 76% connected

Space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one obj…

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Foreland 76% connected

A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.

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Grade 76% connected

A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of fl…

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Head 76% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Headland 76% connected

A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water.

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Height 76% connected

The condition of being high; elevated position.

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Highland 76% connected

Elevated or mountainous land; (often in the pl.) an elevated region or country; as, the Highlands of Scotland.

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Hill 76% connected

A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain.

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Mount 76% connected

A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always ins…

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Mountain 76% connected

A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land; earth and rock forming an isolated peak or a ridge; an e…

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Promontory 76% connected

A high point of land or rock projecting into the sea beyond the line of coast; a headland; a high cape.

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Ridge 76% connected

The back, or top of the back; a crest.

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Swell 76% connected

To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the le…

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Upland 76% connected

High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally…

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Water level 76% connected

The level formed by the surface of still water.

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Broader term 13

Ascension 76% connected

The act of ascending; a rising; ascent.

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Ascent 76% connected

The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.

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Degree 76% connected

A step, stair, or staircase.

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Distance 76% connected

The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separati…

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Formation 76% connected

The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.

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Increase 76% connected

To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance;…

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Leap 76% connected

A basket.

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Level 76% connected

A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface…

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Plan 76% connected

A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation o…

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

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Rise 76% connected

To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…

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Rising 76% connected

of Rise

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Stage 76% connected

A floor or story of a house.

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Lift 74% connected

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

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Lift 74% connected

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

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Component part 3

Incline 70% connected

To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to…

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Side 70% connected

The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distin…

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Slope 70% connected

An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface t…

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Synonym 14

Acme 92% connected

The top or highest point; the culmination.

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Aggrandizement 92% connected

The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seek…

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Alt 92% connected

The higher part of the scale. See Alto.

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Altitude 92% connected

Space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one obj…

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Height 92% connected

The condition of being high; elevated position.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Lift 92% connected

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

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Meridian 92% connected

Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course.

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Peak 92% connected

A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.

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Pinnacle 92% connected

An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where…

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Raising 92% connected

of Raise

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Summit 92% connected

The top; the highest point.

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Superlative 92% connected

Lifted up to the highest degree; most eminent; surpassing all other; supreme; as, superlative wisdom or prudence; a woman of superlative beauty; the…

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Tiptop 92% connected

The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything.

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Top 92% connected

A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem,…

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