pinnacle

Definition

  • noun: a high mountain top
  • noun: an upright architectural member generally ending in a small spire and used especially in Gothic construction to give weight especially to a buttress
  • verb: to surmount with a pinnacle
  • usually singular
  • synonyms: turret, peak, height

Examples

  • His career reached its 'pinnacle' when he won the championship.

  • Winning the championship was the 'pinnacle of' his career.

  • She stands at the 'pinnacle of' the fashion industry.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) And you, Stark? - No. - No? So you're a man who has everything and nothing. Relax. The bow and arrow once was the pinnacle of weapons technology. It allowed the great Genghis Khan to rule from the Pacific to the Ukraine. An empire twice the size of Alexander the Great and four times But today, (..)
    2008 Iron Man