Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The position of a heavenly body when it is on the meridian; the attainment by a star of its highest or lowest altitude on any day.
- n. The highest point or summit; the top; the act or fact of reaching the highest point: used especially in figurative senses.
Wiktionary
- n. astronomy The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit.
- n. Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit.
- n. Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a final climactic stage
- n. the decisive moment in a novel or play
- n. (astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon
- n. a concluding action
Examples
“This was truer than Judis realized, for he seemed not quite to grasp that a culmination is the reaching of the highest point.”
“The iPad, which they called the culmination of an approach that he has seemingly been perfecting for his entire career.”
“Embassytown" might be called the culmination of these interests: For his eighth novel he has created a new city on a new world in a new universe, one underpinned by the immer, a "big and tidal quiddity" where normal rules of space and time do not apply and which ships cross to travel between planets.”
“The culmination is its avowedly "apolitical" Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the Mall on Saturday.”
The Washington Post: Jon Stewart, President Obama debate on 'The Daily Show'
“Although these physical attributes are shared by other Oriental and also by the Latin races, they reach a climax in the Jewish type, which in its culmination is unsympathetic to the Anglo-Saxon, the Oriental, or the Latin people.”
“Its culmination is expressed in the proverb: "A woman should leave her home but three times, – when she is christened, when she is married, and when she is buried.”
“In a show of how much IBM has bought into the cloud, the company has announced something that it calls the culmination of more than 10 years of software management best practices.”
“The culmination will be a live performance Saturday by the rapper Fabolous.”
“A culmination was the $4.1 billion purchase of Skype in 2005 (including all payouts), in which she took an auction and e-commerce site into the phone business.”
The Huffington Post: William Bradley: Harsh Realm: Meg Whitman and the CEO Myth
“The program consists of several breakfast and evening forums, but the culmination is the annual spring luncheon, which this year raised $1 million for research.”
The Wall Street Journal: Ladies Lunch for Women in Science at Rockefeller
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘culmination’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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2nd part
prelude, ample, escalate, prototype, accession, acquisition, archives, zealot, indict, verdict, intimidating, timid and 454 more...
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Last Words
Endings, results, and pinnacles. The ideal here is to somehow imply the paradoxical concept of "after-endings".
consequence, aftermath, finality, outcome, postmundane, endgame, redound, cloture, bourne, meridian, memento mori, psychopomp and 72 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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cuzican's Words
lexicon, tirade, innocuous, apathy, narcissist, subtle, agnostic, plethora, malleable, catalyst, pithy, irate and 116 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Aequoria's list
affect, deleterious, nuance, pliant, verbatim, pertinent, latter, municipality, provincial, voyeuristic, circumlocution, wane and 798 more...
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JLaughWork's Words
sesquipedalian, perspicacity, fervid, onomatopoeia, eschatology, prognostication, pedagogue, expiation, integrity, metamorphosis, supercilious, xenophilia and 229 more...
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September Words
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ephemerides
being words related to astronomy, stellar cartography, and the music of the spheres, including names of planets, stars and constellations
ephemerides, ascension, declination, apogee, planet, star, constellation, galaxy, system, syzygy, ecliptic, sun and 202 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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difficult-list12
coup, covenant, coy, cozen, crabbed, craven, crass, credence, credo, crone, crotchety, cull and 14 more...
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Top or Highest Point
Words meaning top or highest point
summit, apex, acme, fastigium, zenith, apogee, culmen, culmination, vertex, crown, corona, cacumen and 2 more...
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OrbitalCombustion's Words
nepenthe, phrontistery, peregrination, pervicacious, sinistrality, phallogocentric, prolixity, leptokurtic, ineffable, haecceity, lucubration, vicissitudes and 1026 more...
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