Elevation

Noun

 * 1) 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 to sainthood; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character.
 * 2) The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation.
 * 3) That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station; as, an elevation of the ground; a hill.
 * 4) The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of the pole, or of a star.
 * 5) The angle which the style makes with the substylar line.
 * 6) The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line of sight; distinguished from direction.
 * 7)  A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; called by the ancients the orthography.
 * 8) The raising of the host - representing Christ's body - in a mass or Holy Communion service.
 * 9) (Drafting) A drawing showing the projection of a building on a vertical plane
 * 10) (Surveying) Height above sea level ; altitude

Adjectives for Elevation
steady; long; hard; uphill; persistent; continuous; forced; extraordinary; startling; amazing; rapid; meteoric; slow; evolutionary; gradual; artistic; cultural; social; economic; mental; physical; intellectual; surprising; progressive; technical; moral; spectacular;

Antonyms for Elevation
disgust; demotion; depression; diminishment; reduction

Related terms
elevate; elevator; overelevation

Thesaurus
accession, acclivity, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, acme, addition, advance, advancement, aerial heights, aggrandizement, altitude, amplification, anabasis, apex, apotheosis, appreciation, ascension, ascent, augmentation, ballooning, beatification, bigheartedness, bigness, bloating, blueprint, boom, boost, broadening, brouillon, buildup, canonization, cartoon, ceiling, chart, chivalrousness, chivalry, clamber, climb, climbing, consequence, conspicuousness, copy, crescendo, cultivation, deification, delineation, design, development, diagram, dignification, dignity, distinction, dizzy heights, draft, drawing, ebauche, edema, eminence, enhancement, enlargement, ennoblement, enshrinement, enthronement, erecting, erection, errantry, escalade, esquisse, ether, exaltation, excellence, expansion, extension, figure, flood, fountain, gain, generosity, generousness, glorification, graduation, grandeur, graph, gravity, great heart, greatening, greatheartedness, greatness, greatness of heart, ground plan, growth, gush, gyring up, hauteur, heaven, heavens, heaving up, height, heighth, heights, heroism, high mightiness, high-mindedness, highness, hike, hill, house plan, ichnography, idealism, immortalization, importance, increase, increment, inflation, jet, jump, knight-errantry, knighting, knightliness, largeheartedness, leap, levitation, liberality, liberalness, lift, lionization, loftiness, lofting, lump, magnanimity, magnanimousness, magnification, majesty, mark, mount, mounting, multiplication, nobility, noble-mindedness, nobleness, notability, note, openhandedness, outline, outstandingness, passing, pattern, pay raise, perpendicular distance, plot, preference, preferment, princeliness, productiveness, profile, projection, proliferation, prominence, promotion, raise, raising, rearing, refinement, rise, rising, rising ground, rocketing up, rough, sainting, saltation, sanctification, shooting up, significance, skeleton, sketch, sky, snowballing, soaring, solemnity, spout, spread, spring, spurt, standing on end, stateliness, stature, steep, stratosphere, sublimity, supereminence, surge, swelling, table, takeoff, taking off, tallness, toploftiness, tumescence, up, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrading, upgrowth, uphill, upleap, uplift, uplifting, upping, upraising, uprearing, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, uptrend, upturn, vantage ground, vantage point, vault, waxing, wen, widening, working drawing, zenith, zooming

Translations

 * : altitud ,ascenso, elevación , exaltación , enaltecimiento , promontorio