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Meaning of altaltissimo | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

The highest point of something; the pinnacle or apex.

countable, literary, rare, uncountable

Examples

“Then one shall propose (in a speech, curt Tuscan, / Sober, expurgate, spare of an "issimo,") / Ending our half-told tale of Cambuscan, / Turning the Bell-tower's altaltissimo.”
“Gordon, too, carried plenty in his hands, but principally he went for his heart's sake, and that will take a man to altaltissimo.”
“Beatrice Davis's office, a mere attic above Angus and Robertson's bookshop at 89 Castlereagh Street, is at the altaltissimo of a perilous steep of strait wooden stairs.”
“Persons born under this number always rise high in their respective professions. To achieve summum bonum, the highest altaltissimo in their profession, is their main objective.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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