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elevationnoun a raising or a state of being raised to a higher rank or positionthe appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor marked the first elevation of a woman to the U.S. Supreme Court advancement, ascent, creation, preference, preferment, promotion, rise, upgrade, upgrading aggrandizement, ennoblement, exaltation, glorification, magnification abasement, comedown, degradation, demotion, disrating, downgrade, reduction deposition, dethronement, discharge, dismissal, expulsion, impeachment, ouster, overthrow, removal, suspension, unmaking, unseatingdownfall, fall an area of high groundLittle Round Top is one of the most visited elevations in the entire Gettysburg National Military Park altitude(s), eminence, height, highland, hill, hump, mound, prominence, rise, upland alp, mount, mountain, peakbutte, mesa, plateau, table, tablelandbluff, cliff, crag, precipice, steep, torridge, sierradome, sugarloaffoothill, hillock, hummock, knob, knolldowns lowland dale, dell, depression, dingle, glen, hollow, vale, valleybasin, bottom, bottomland, fen, flat, floodplain, plain, tidewater the distance of something or someone from bottom to topthe elevation of Angel Falls is 979 meters, making it the world's highest waterfall height, altitude, elevation mean vertical distance either between the top and bottom of something or between a base and something above it.height refers to something measured vertically whether high or low.a wall two meters in height altitude and elevation apply to height as measured by angular measurement or atmospheric pressure; altitude is preferable when referring to vertical distance above the surface of the earth or above sea level; elevation is used especially in reference to vertical height on land.fly at an altitude of 10,000 meters Denver is a city with a high elevation in the 14th century |