What is another word for summits?

Pronunciation: [sˈʌmɪts] (IPA)

Summits are high points or peaks, usually on a mountain range or hilltop. There are various synonyms for the word summit that can be used to describe these high points. Some of the synonyms are apex, peak, crest, pinnacle, top, acme, zenith, and climax. Apex describes the highest point or climax of a mountain. Peak refers to the highest point of a mountain range or hill. Crest refers to the top edge of a mountain or hill. Pinnacle refers to the highest point of a rock formation or spire. Top refers to the highest point of a mountain or hill. Acme is the highest point or pinnacle of achievement. Zenith refers to the highest point or peak of a heavenly body. Lastly, climax refers to the highest or most intense point of an experience or event.

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Usage examples for Summits

At last I could distinguish the tall towers with the flames bursting out from their summits, and I knew that the chateau was doomed to destruction.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston
I could there show him many of the distant summits to the northward of the country, I was about to lay down on my map.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell
I was now at a loss for names to the principal summits of the country.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell

Famous quotes with Summits

  • Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
    Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • It's no use crying over spilt summits.
    Harold MacMillan
  • We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
    George Bernard Shaw
  • Those who found nothing on the plains will find nothing on the summits of mountains!
    Mehmet Murat ildan

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