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summit
/ˈsʌmət/
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What does summit mean?
noun
- The highest point of a hill, mountain, or similar geographical feature.
- A vertex of a polygon or polyhedron.
- The highest point of a canal, railway, road, etc.
More meanings (37)
noun
- (figuratively) The highest point of achievement, development, etc., that can be reached; the acme, the pinnacle.
- (figuratively) An assembly or gathering of the leaders of countries to discuss issues of international significance; also (loosely), an important or high-level gathering or meeting.
- (obsolete) Synonym of anther (“the pollen-bearing part of the stamen of a flower”) or (rare) stigma (“the sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination”).
- (obsolete, rare) One of the two vertices of a crystal with a rhombohedral shape where the angles of each face are equal; also, the highest point of a crystal with a pyramidal or tetrahedral shape.
- (archaic, figuratively) The highest level of political leadership.
verb
- (informal) To reach the summit (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.1) of (a mountain).
- (informal) To reach the summit of a mountain.
- To attend a summit (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.2.2).
pronoun
- (informal) Alternative spelling of summat (“something”).
proper noun
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Blount County, Alabama.
- A census-designated place in Pima County, Arizona.
- A minor city in Marion County, Arkansas.
- An unincorporated community in Santa Cruz County and Santa Clara County, California.
- A village in Cook County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Smithfield Township, DeKalb County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Stockton Township, Greene County, Indiana, named after the old Summit Mine.
- An unincorporated community in Hendricks County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in LaPorte County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Boyd County, Kentucky.
- A town in Pike County, Mississippi.
- An unincorporated community in Washington County, Missouri.
- A city in Union County, New Jersey.
- A town in Schoharie County, New York, named for Mount Wharton nearby.
- A town in Muskogee County, Oklahoma.
- A census-designated place in Benton County, Oregon.
- A village in the town of Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island.
- A town in Lexington County, South Carolina.
- A town in Roberts County, South Dakota.
- A census-designated place in Iron County, Utah, situated on a divide.
- A census-designated place in Pierce County, Washington.
- An unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia.
- A town in Douglas County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Juneau County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Langlade County, Wisconsin.
- A village in Waukesha County, Wisconsin.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Summit Township.
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Yes, and handsome, after a rude fashion, and clothed with ivy from base to summit, as with a shirt of scale mail.
The ashes of the original British pyre which blazed from that summit lay fresh and undisturbed in the barrow beneath their tread.
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I of course ascended to the summit of the great Pyramid, and also explored its chambers, but these I need not describe.
At the summit of the steep mountain was a triangular platform, defended by a breastwork, behind which were seventy of the foe.
We at last found ourselves among the stunted trees, and then soon reached the bare ridge, which conducted us to the summit.