exalt

English

Etymology

From Middle English exalten, from Old French exalter, from Latin exaltō.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɒlt/, /ɪɡˈzɔːlt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɔlt/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɑlt/
• Rhymes: -ɒlt, -ɔːlt
• Hyphenation: ex‧alt

Verb

exalt (third-person singular simple present exalts, present participle exalting, simple past and past participle exalted)

1. (transitive) To honor; to hold in high esteem; to praise or worship.

   They exalted their queen.

2. (transitive) To raise in rank, status etc., to elevate.

   The man was exalted from a humble carpenter to a minister.

3. (transitive) To elate, or fill with the joy of success.
4. (transitive, chemistry, archaic) To refine or subtilize.

Usage notes

Do not confuse exalt (praise, extol) (transitive) with exult (rejoice) (intransitive) – "Some people exult when others exalt their achievements."

Synonyms

• upgrade

Antonyms

• abase
• demean

Derived terms

• exaltation
• exaltment
• superexalt

 

Translations

to honor

• Bulgarian: величая (bg) (veličaja), възхвалявам (bg) (vǎzhvaljavam)
• Catalan: exaltar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 褒揚 / 褒扬 (zh) (bāoyáng)

• Finnish: ylistää (fi)
• Galician: exaltar (gl)
• German: ehren (de)
• Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hauhjan)
• Greek: εκθειάζω (el) (ektheiázo)

  Ancient: ὑψόω (hupsóō)

• Japanese: 崇める (ja) (agameru), 褒める (ja) (homeru), 持ち上げる (ja) (mochiageru)
• Latin: extollō
• Mbyá Guaraní: mboyvate
• Persian: تجلیل کردن (fa) (tajlil kardan)
• Romanian: cinsti (ro), exalta (ro) (rare)
• Russian: прославлять (ru) (proslavljatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: veličati (sh)
• Spanish: exaltar (es)

to elevate in rank, status etc.

• Bulgarian: издигам (bg) (izdigam)
• Catalan: exaltar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抬高 (zh) (táigāo), 提昇 / 提升 (zh) (tíshēng)

• Finnish: ylentää (fi)
• German: erhöhen (de)
• Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hauhjan)
• Greek: εξυψώνω (el) (exypsóno)

  Ancient: ὑψόω (hupsóō)

• Irish: ardaigh
• Japanese: 崇める (ja) (agameru), 持ち上げる (ja) (mochiageru), 格上げする (ja) (kakuage suru), 賞揚する (ja) (shōyō suru)
• Latin: extollō
• Mbyá Guaraní: mboyvate
• Old English: āhebban
• Persian: تعالی بخشیدن (ta'âli baxšidan)
• Portuguese: elevar (pt), exaltar (pt)
• Russian: повыша́ть (ru) (povyšátʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: unaprijediti (sh), unaprediti (sh)
• Spanish: exaltar (es)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} esaltare (it)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} exaltar (es)

See also

• exult

Further reading

• “exalt”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• -taxel, LaTeX, latex, taxel