level up
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.37 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To raise to the same level or status; to improve so as to make as good as others.
Transitive verb
verb
To progress to the next level of player character stats and abilities, often by acquiring experience points in role-playing games.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: step up"
- "The government promises to level up the department."
- "Boris Johnson should consider setting targets to level up the UK’s weakest regions to tackle widespread inequality, according to one of the government’s senior independent policy advisers."
- "Labour's Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds hit back at Sunak and said that his failure to greenlight major projects such as Northern Powerhouse Rail showed that government claims of levelling up the country were "not supported by the evidence"."
- "I leveled up after defeating the dragon."
- "As your troops conquer the enemy, they'll earn experience and gain levels. Each time they level up, their stats will increase."
Etymology
From level + up. The video game sense is a calque of Japanese レベルアップ (reberu appu) using the SOV word order.
Usage
- Transitive verb
- British usage