surmounted

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adjective

Of an arch or dome: rising higher than a semicircle.

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Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of surmount

    Then there is the special category of Cyrillic letters reserved only for the Ukrainian language. You may see, for example, on a Ukrainian necklace or bracelet, or on a T-shirt, the letter Ї – like our letter I, surmounted by a diaeresis.

    2026 August 4, Charlotte Higgins, “‘The war leaked into every lesson’: learning Ukrainian in a country under siege”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC
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    "Around the World in Eighty Days" once had so much appeal to the imagination that Jules Verne wrote a novel about it. The latest proposal is to girdle the globe in three months in a flying machine. The practicability of such a flight is here discussed by an expert. Mr. Woodhouse is a member of the Aero Club of America and managing editor of "Flying". ¶ When the Aero Club of America received the news that the Panama-Pacific International Exposition had decided to offer $300,000 in prize money for a ninety-day aircraft race around the world, no one connected with aeronautics laughed at the conception or called it the dream of a Verne or a Wells. A map of the course of the race indicates that to circumaviate the globe will mean flights over mountains and deserts, through storms, and across seas. But formidable obstacles in all of these classifications have been surmounted before by airmen, and, of course, can be surmounted again.

    1914 February 28, Henry Woodhouse, “Girdling the Globe by Motor-Driven Aircraft”, in Collier's, volume 52, number 24, page 13
adjectivesurmounted (not comparable)
  1. not comparablearchitectureOf an arch or dome: rising higher than a semicircle.
  2. not comparablegovernmentOverlaid; denoting a figure when another is laid over it.

    Argent, a fess vert, surmounted by a saltier gules, by the name of Parveis.

    1846, William Newton, Display of Heraldry, page 75
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