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Meaning of 'summit'
Meaning of 'summit' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Summit 
[ n.]
- The top; the highest point. [ n.]- The highest degree; the utmost elevation; the acme; as, the summit of human fame.
- The most elevated part of a bivalve shell, or the part in which the hinge is situated.
Meaning of 'summit' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. summit [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
Example in sentence:
- ...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame;
- at the height of her career;
- at the top of his profession;
- his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty;
- so many highest superlatives achieved by man;
- summer was at its peak;
- the artist's gifts are at their acme;
- the peak of perfection;
- the summit of his ambition
Meaning (2):
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
Example in sentence:
- the region is a few molecules wide at the summit;
- the view from the peak was magnificent;
- they clambered to the tip of Monadnock
2. summit [ v]
[ v]Meaning (3):
- reach the summit (of a mountain)
- reach the summit (of a mountain)
Example in sentence:
- Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit;
- They breasted the mountain
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