noun one who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything.
2. elevator ·noun an instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.
3. elevator ·noun a building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.
4. elevator ·noun a muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye.
5. elevator ·noun a mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage.
6. elevator ·add. ·noun a movable plane or group of planes used to control the altitude or fore-and-aft poise or inclination of an airship or flying machine.
7. elevator ·noun a cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, ·etc., for conveying persons, goods, ·etc., to or from different floors or levels;
called in england a lift; the cage or platform itself.