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/ˈsʌmɪt/
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/ˈsʌmət/
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ˈsʌmɪt
Noun
The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak. The highest point of a hill, mountain, or similar geographical feature.
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In summer, it is possible to hike to the summit of Mount Shasta.
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How can I crawl up to reach those heights / And run? / The venom is what keeps me alive / The venom is what keeps me alive / Up to the summit at night / Desperate to find that beating heart of mine that always makes me run
The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak. A vertex of a polygon or polyhedron.
The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak. The highest point of a canal, railway, road, etc.
The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak. 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”).
Usage- Obsolete
The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak. 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.
Usage- Obsolete
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The highest point of achievement, development, etc., that can be reached; the acme, the pinnacle.
Usage- Figurative
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Learning from others as from himself, he reached the summit of his development with his latest work.
The highest level of political leadership.
Usage- Archaic
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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.
Usage- broadly
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They met for an international summit on environmental issues.
Verb
To reach the summit (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.1) of (a mountain).
Usage- Informal
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Of the range's 12 peaks, Mount Saskatchewan is the only one that has yet to be summited.
To reach the summit of a mountain.
Usage- Informal
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To attend a summit (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.2.2).
Usage- Intransitive
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If the Soviet leaders could go on summiting with the US while bombs poured on North Vietnam and yet claim that they had nothing but the best interests of the Vietnamese revolution in mind, there seems precious little reason to cry wolf at Peking-Bonn relations.
[…] what the North Vietnamese would do while Richard Nixon was summiting in Moscow. […]
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The young President [JFK], who is on the eve of summiting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, is ensconced at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, preparing to fly to Vienna with his wife, Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, to meet with Khrushchev to discuss Cold War issues.
The President had been summiting with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev in Vienna.
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From May 29 to June 3, 1988[,] Reagan and Gorbachev summited in Moscow. Expectations of the meeting were low, because Reagan's position as a "lame duck" president guaranteed that nothing new of historic import would occur.
Noun
the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
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his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty
the artist's gifts are at their acme
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at the height of her career
the peak of perfection
summer was at its peak
… catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame
the summit of his ambition
so many highest superlatives achieved by man
at the top of his profession
the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
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the view from the peak was magnificent
they clambered to the tip of Monadnock
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the region is a few molecules wide at the summit
a meeting of heads of governments
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Verb
reach the summit (of a mountain)
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They breasted the mountain
Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit