SUMMIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does summit mean? 

• SUMMIT (noun)
  The noun SUMMIT has 3 senses:

1. the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development

2. the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)

3. a meeting of heads of governments

  Familiarity information: SUMMIT used as a noun is uncommon.

• SUMMIT (verb)
  The verb SUMMIT has 1 sense:

1. reach the summit (of a mountain)

  Familiarity information: SUMMIT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUMMIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

acme; elevation; height; meridian; peak; pinnacle; summit; superlative; tiptop; top

Context example:

at the top of his profession

Hypernyms ("summit" is a kind of...):

degree; level; point; stage (a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

crest; crown; peak; summit; tip; top

Context example:

the region is a few molecules wide at the summit

Hypernyms ("summit" is a kind of...):

place; spot; topographic point (a point located with respect to surface features of some region)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "summit"):

brow; hilltop (the peak of a hill)

pinnacle (a lofty peak)

mountain peak (the summit of a mountain)

Derivation:

summit (reach the summit (of a mountain))

Sense 3

Meaning:

A meeting of heads of governments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

summit; summit meeting

Hypernyms ("summit" is a kind of...):

group meeting; meeting (a formally arranged gathering)

• SUMMIT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reach the summit (of a mountain)

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

breast; summit

Context example:

Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit

Hypernyms (to "summit" is one way to...):

arrive at; attain; gain; hit; make; reach (reach a destination, either real or abstract)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

summit (the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill))

 Context examples 

Later, people will say that reaching that summit—the top—was easy for you, but you’ll know that nothing could be further from the truth.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

We can only suppose that he must have made his way to the summit and seen it there.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Slowly they made their way back to the summit, but as they came out upon it the Lady Tiphaine darted forward and caught her husband by the wrist.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

New NASA research reveals that the giant Martian volcano Arsia Mons produced one new lava flow at its summit every 1 to 3 million years during the final peak of activity.

(Mars Volcano, Earth's Dinosaurs Went Extinct About the Same Time, NASA)

If ever Wolf Larsen attained the summit of living, he attained it then.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

My mule was brought to the door, and I resolved to ascend to the summit of Montanvert.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I was on the summit of one swell when the schooner came stooping over the next.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Another 22 instruments, placed farther from the summit, survived the eruption and recorded a unique data set.

(Listen to the pulse of an erupting volcano, NSF)

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)