Meaning of high-water mark | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A mark, such as a line of seaweed, showing the highest level reached by a body of water.
2. The peak, apex or acme of something; the maximum level; the furthest or highest point.
   broadly, figuratively

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Examples

“This imposing structure⟳, which not only carries the single track branch line but also the gas main supplying the Forest of Dean area, cost⟳ £200,000 when it was built in 1879, and at its highest point⟳ is 70ft above the high-water mark⟳.”

“Madocks built his model⟳ town on land⟳ partly reclaimed from the sea, and was justifiably proud of the fact that it stood well below what was still the official high-water mark⟳. Until then, the surrounding area was largely marshland.”

“The Gettysburg campaign was the high-water mark⟳ of the Confederacy's invasions of the North.”

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