summit
/ˈsʌmət/ noun B1- The highest point of a hill, mountain, or similar geographical feature. · In summer, it is possible to hike to the summit of Mount Shasta.
- A vertex of a polygon or polyhedron.
- The highest point of a canal, railway, road, etc.
- The highest point of achievement, development, etc., that can be reached; the acme, the pinnacle.
- 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. · They met for an international summit on environmental issues.
Plural summits
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A WOLF saw a Goat feeding at the summit of a steep precipice, where he had no chance of reaching her.
SOME TRAVELERS, journeying along the seashore, climbed to the summit of a tall cliff, and looking over the sea, saw in the distance what they thought was a large ship.
Just beyond were two ancient stone pillars, weather-stained and lichen-blotched, bearing upon their summits a shapeless something which had once been the rampant lion of Capus of Birlstone.
Only, during the respite the absence of his rival afforded him, he reflected, partly on the means of deceiving Mercédès as to the cause of his absence, partly on plans of emigration and abduction, as from time to time he sat sad and motionless on the summit of Cape Pharo, at the spot from whence Marseilles and the Catalans are visible, watching for the apparition of a young and handsome man, who was for him also the messenger of vengeance.
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