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UK
/sˈʌmɪt/
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[ US /ˈsəmət, ˈsəmɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈsəmət, ˈsəmɪt/ ]
NOUN
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the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
at the height of her career
the peak of perfection
his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty
at the top of his profession
summer was at its peak
...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame
so many highest superlatives achieved by man
the summit of his ambition
the artist's gifts are at their acme -
the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
they clambered to the tip of Monadnock
the view from the peak was magnificent
the region is a few molecules wide at the summit - a meeting of heads of governments
VERB
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reach the summit (of a mountain)
Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit
They breasted the mountain
How To Use summit In A Sentence
- He used a specially-arranged series of interviews during the Commonwealth summit yesterday to mount a stout defence of his position.
- Amidst all that humbles and scathes; amidst all that shatters from their life its verdure, smites to the dust the pomp and summit of their pride, and in the very heart of existence writeth a sudden and "strange defeature," -- they stand erect, -- riven, not uprooted, -- a monument less of pity than of awe! The Disowned — Complete
- The general turned his gaze from one person to the other present at the summit meeting.
- Finance ministers and central bankers from the G-20 advanced and developing nations are meeting in South Korea Friday and Saturday to prepare for a summit of G-20 leaders next month. Japan Calls for Currency-Market Cooperation
- He won the summit in the thick of howling wind and driving snow, providentially stumbling upon Trust
- There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.
- The hikers start in tropical rainforest territory and travel through moorlands, alpine meadows and glaciers on the summit.
- The exhilaration of a mountain summit or the thrill of abseiling into a gorge are experiences that will stay with them. Times, Sunday Times
- The description aptly described the new diplomacy of detente emerging from the 1972 super-power summit.
- In a series of calls, he made clear that Britain would retain the referendum option and that he did not want to prejudice next week's crisis talks at a Brussels summit.
