different between elevated vs queenly

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?ve?t?d/
• Hyphenation: el?e?vated

Verb

elevated

1. simple past tense and past participle of elevate

Adjective

elevated (comparative more elevated, superlative most elevated)

1. Raised, particularly above ground level.
2. Increased, particularly above a normal level.

   the elevated language of poetry

3. Of a higher rank or status.
4. (computing) Running with administration rights granted

   Install all the required tools from an elevated console.

5. (archaic, slang) intoxicated; drunk

Translations

Noun

elevated (plural elevateds)

1. (US) An elevated railway.
   • 1934, Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man, New York: Knopf, Chapter 16,^[1]

     Mr. Nunheim’s home was on the fourth floor of a dark, damp, and smelly building made noisy by the Sixth Avenue elevated.

   • 2012, Roger P. Roess, Gene Sansone, The Wheels That Drove New York

     While the New York, Fordham, and Bronx Railway never built any elevateds, its franchise rights were valuable.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kwi?nli/

Etymology 1

From Middle English queenly, quenly, from Old English cw?nl??, equivalent to queen +? -ly.

Adjective

queenly (comparative queenlier, superlative queenliest)

1. Having the status, rank or qualities of a queen; regal.
   • 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book IV, Chapter III, [1]

     So Maggie, glad of anything that would soothe her mother, and cheer their long day together, consented to the vain decoration, and showed a queenly head above her old frocks, steadily refusing, however, to look at herself in the glass.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13,

     There was an innate refinement, a languid queenly hauteur about Gerty which was unmistakably evidenced in her delicate hands and higharched instep.

   • 2018, Queen True, "A Royal Stink", True and the Rainbow Kingdom

     I'm so sorry. If I'd done my queenly duties right, none of this would have happened. But maybe I can fix it with some wish help.

Synonyms

• queenlike
• reginal

Derived terms

• queenliness

Etymology 2

From queen +? -ly.

Adverb

queenly (comparative queenlier, superlative queenliest)

1. In a queenly manner; regally.

Synonyms

• queenlily