Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

upliftment

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.04 in modern English

Syllables: up-lift-ment
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Lifting up; elevation or promotion.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"For instance, the most plausible stylistic progenitors of Yorick's rhapsodic upliftments of language are the astonishing outbursts of Theocles in 'The Moralists'."
"We turn to the spirit because the material world has nothing to offer us; we declare spiritual upliftments to be the highest virtues."
"Intermarriage, he apparently thought, would produce racial upliftment, biologically as much as spiritually and culturally, through generational enhancement."

Etymology

From uplift + -ment.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: uplift

Usage

Inflected Forms

upliftments (plural)

Questions

What does upliftment mean?: Lifting up; elevation or promotion.
Where does upliftment come from?: From uplift + -ment.

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