summit

plural summits

1. The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak.
   1. The highest point of a hill, mountain, or similar geographical feature.

      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

      2021 September 17, “The Summit”, in Eternal Blue, performed by Spiritbox, Portland, Or.: Rise Records, →OCLC

      Synonyms: acme, summity, zenith

   2. mathematicsA vertex of a polygon or polyhedron.

      Synonyms: acme, summity, zenith

   3. nauticalThe highest point of a canal, railway, road, etc.

      Synonyms: acme, summity, zenith

   4. obsoletebiologySynonym 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”).

      Synonyms: acme, summity, zenith, anther

   5. obsoleterarechemistryOne 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.

      Synonyms: acme, summity, zenith

2. figurativelyThe highest point of achievement, development, etc., that can be reached; the acme, the pinnacle.

   Learning from others as from himself, he reached the summit of his development with his latest work.

   1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 153

3. archaicfigurativelygovernmentThe highest level of political leadership.
4. broadlyfigurativelygovernmentAn 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.

present singular third person summits · participle present summiting · participle present summitting · participle past summited · past summited · participle past summitted · past summitted

1. informaltransitiveclimbingTo reach the summit (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.1) of (a mountain).

   Of the range's 12 peaks, Mount Saskatchewan is the only one that has yet to be summited.

   2012 July–August, Kenza Moller, “Eyes on the North”, in Canadian Geographic, volume 132, number 4, Ottawa: Royal Canadian Geographical Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10

2. informalintransitiveclimbingTo reach the summit of a mountain.
3. intransitivegovernmentTo attend a summit (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.2.2).

   The President had been summiting with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev in Vienna.

   2001, Robert V. Heffernan, Cabinetmakers: Story of the Three-year Battle to Establish the U.S. Department of Education, page 439

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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.

   1969, Economic and Political Weekly, volume 4, numbers 14-26, page 645

   […] what the North Vietnamese would do while Richard Nixon was summiting in Moscow. […]

   1972, Newsweek, volume 79, page 51

   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.

   1998, David S. Nuttall, Mickey Mantle's Greatest Hits, page 152

   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.

   2021, Mark LaVoie, Reagan’s Soviet Rhetoric: Telling the Soviet Redemption Story, page 92

1. EnglandYorkshirealternativeinformalespecially LancashireAlternative spelling of summat (“something”).

   I need to get summit to eat.

plural Summits

1. countableuncountableA surname.
2. A number of places in the United States:
   1. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Blount County, Alabama.
   2. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Pima County, Arizona.
   3. countableuncountableA minor city in Marion County, Arkansas.
   4. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Santa Cruz County and Santa Clara County, California.
   5. countableuncountableA village in Cook County, Illinois.
   6. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Smithfield Township, DeKalb County, Indiana.
   7. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Stockton Township, Greene County, Indiana, named after the old Summit Mine.
   8. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Hendricks County, Indiana.
   9. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in LaPorte County, Indiana.
   10. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Boyd County, Kentucky.
   11. countableuncountableA town in Pike County, Mississippi.
   12. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Washington County, Missouri.
   13. countableuncountableA city in Union County, New Jersey.
   14. countableuncountableA town in Schoharie County, New York, named for Mount Wharton nearby.
   15. countableuncountableA town in Muskogee County, Oklahoma.
   16. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Benton County, Oregon.
   17. countableuncountableA village in the town of Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island.
   18. countableuncountableA town in Lexington County, South Carolina.
   19. countableuncountableA town in Roberts County, South Dakota.
   20. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Iron County, Utah, situated on a divide.
   21. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Pierce County, Washington.
   22. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia.
   23. countableuncountableA town in Douglas County, Wisconsin.
   24. countableuncountableA town in Juneau County, Wisconsin.
   25. countableuncountableA town in Langlade County, Wisconsin.
   26. countableuncountableA village in Waukesha County, Wisconsin.
   27. countableuncountableA number of townships in the United States, listed under Summit Township.