summit
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
chemistry
climbing
crystallography
government
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
politics
rail-transport
railways
road
sciences
sports
transport
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.
Inflected forms:
form: summits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: summits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: summiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: summitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: summited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: summited
pos: verb
tags: past
form: summitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: summitted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak.
pos: noun
examples: 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
gloss: The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak.
pos: noun
gloss: The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak.
pos: noun
gloss: The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
rare
gloss: The highest point of achievement, development, etc., that can be reached; the acme, the pinnacle.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Learning from others as from himself, he reached the summit of his development with his latest work.
gloss: The highest level of political leadership.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
figuratively
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: They met for an international summit on environmental issues.
gloss: To reach the summit (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.1) of (a mountain).
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: Of the range's 12 peaks, Mount Saskatchewan is the only one that has yet to be summited.
gloss: To reach the summit of a mountain.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
gloss: To attend a summit (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.2.2).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
[…] what the North Vietnamese would do while Richard Nixon was summiting in Moscow. […]
The young President [JFK], who is on the eve of summiting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, is ensconced at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, preparing to fly to Vienna with his wife, Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, to meet with Khrushchev to discuss Cold War issues.
The President had been summiting with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev in Vienna.
From May 29 to June 3, 1988[,] Reagan and Gorbachev summited in Moscow. Expectations of the meeting were low, because Reagan's position as a "lame duck" president guaranteed that nothing new of historic import would occur.
Synonyms: apex
apogee
crest
crown
culmen
fastigium
height
peak
pinnacle
ridge
roof
summit
top
vertex
zenith
surmount
Antonyms: base
foundation
nadir
trough
Related words: summity
tall
Derived words: blind summit
false summit
Lee's Summit
minisummit
presummit
subsummit
summital
Summit County
summit disease
summited
summiteer
summiter
summit fever
summit-hop
summit-hopper
summitless
summitry
summit tunnel
Summitville
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: päästä huipulle
lang: Swedish
word: nå toppen
lang: Zazaki
word: resayen