Meaning of Pinnacle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The highest point.
2. A locality in the Weddin council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
3. A tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain.
4. An all-time high; a point of greatest achievement or success.
   figuratively
5. An upright member, generally ending in a small spire, used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire.

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Examples

“Kings, who remain in many respects the representatives of a vanished world, solitary pinnacles that topple over the rising waste of waters under which the past lies buried.”

“The pinnacle of the effort to fix restrictive meanings to a set of terminology can be found in two papers in American Speech by Feinsilver (1979, 1980).”

“Some renowned metropolis / With glistering spires and pinnacles around.”

“In the city’s midst the gleaming marble of a thousand steps climbed to the citadel where arose four pinnacles beckoning to heaven, and midmost between the pinnacles there stood the dome, vast, as the gods had dreamed it.”

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