- pronunciation:
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a platform or a small room used to raise and lower people or goods from one level or floor to another in a building.
We took the elevator up to our seventh-floor hotel room.- similar words:
- hoist, lift
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| definition 2: |
a grain storage building used to lift and pour out grain; grain elevator.
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| related words: |
car |
The word elevator
contains the following parts:
lev, liev
Latin
root
that means
light (in weight)
Example words:
-ator
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means
a person or thing that does
More about this word part:
The suffix -ator
turns verbs ending in -ate into nouns. It is a compound of -ate + -or.
Example words: