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How to spell elevator

What it means: A device that moves people between floors.

In a sentence: The elevator takes us up to the sky-high tower! ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as elevater or elavator.

Same family: elevated, elevation, elevator shaft, lift, escalator. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Elevator comes from the Latin verb *elevare*, meaning 'to raise' or 'to lift up.' In British English, the same device is usually called a 'lift,' while 'elevator' is the standard term in American English.

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