Of a person or his or her attributes: of exalted rank, status, dignity, or estimation. Also of a person's reputation or position in society: exalted…

In alliterative verse and phrases, often with sense weakened, or influenced by the words with which it is coupled; as †stern on steed, †stern in steel…

Of a person (or family): of high social or official position; of high birth or rank; having much wealth or power; occupying a position towards the…

Superior, eminent. Obsolete. rare.

Excelling in rank or dignity; exalted, highly honourable. In heraldic use, a formal epithet indicating a rank higher than that denoted by ‘noble’. Obs…

Of exalted rank or station; high-born, noble.

Occupying a higher (or the highest) position, station, or rank; superior in authority, place, etc. Cf. upstairs, adv. n.1c.

Used as past participle of elevate, v.; also = elevated, adj.; in various senses. From 18th cent. only poetic.

Hence of sort, of (high) quality or rank.

Of rank, status, or office: very high, exalted.

Of persons. Exalted, dignified in rank or station.

Elevated in rank, station, or public estimation. Usually without implication of any previous lower condition: Highly placed, of high station, etc…

figurative. Exalted in rank.

Elevated in station. Obsolete.

That occupies a (specified) place in a hierarchy of ranks; (also) that has a high rank. Frequently: spec. (originally Military) that has the highest…

figurative. Of high rank, position, or status; senior. Also: of or characteristic of people of high rank or status.

Military. Of an officer: holding a high rank.

Placed in a superior position; imposed over someone or something as a higher authority.

slang. Of high rank or great wealth. (Cf. salt, n.1 3a.)

In sense ‘highest or first’. Adverbially with adjectives or participial adjectives, as top-ranking, top-rated, top-secret, etc.