summit
/ˈsʌmət/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.30 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The highest point of achievement, development, etc., that can be reached; the acme, the pinnacle.
noun
An assembly or gathering of the leaders of countries to discuss issues of international significance; also (loosely), an important or high-level gathering or meeting.
Example Sentences
- "In summer, it is possible to hike to the summit of Mount Shasta."
- "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"
- "Learning from others as from himself, he reached the summit of his development with his latest work."
- "They met for an international summit on environmental issues."
- "Of the range's 12 peaks, Mount Saskatchewan is the only one that has yet to be summited."
- "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."
Etymology
PIE word *upó The noun is derived from Late Middle English somet, somete (“head, top”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman sumet and Middle French sommet (masculine), somete, sommette (“top of a thing; highest point of a mountain”) (feminine) (modern French sommet), from Old French somet, sommette, from som, sum (“highest point, summit”) + -et (suffix forming diminutive masculine nouns), -ete, -ette (suffix forming diminutive feminine nouns). Som, sum are derived from Latin summum (“top, summit”), a noun use of the neuter of summus (“greatest, highest; top, uppermost”, adjective) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“over”) + *-m̥mos, *-tm̥mos (“suffix forming superlative adjectives”)). The modern English spelling was influenced by summity (“height or top of a thing; utmost degree, perfection”) (obsolete). The verb is derived from the noun.
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Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsʌmət/
- British English: /ˈsʌmɪt/