summit

noun

1. The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak.

   “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”

2. The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak.
3. The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak.
4. (obsolete)The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak.
5. (obsolete, rare)The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak.
6. (figuratively)The highest point of achievement, development, etc., that can be reached; the acme, the pinnacle.

   “Learning from others as from himself, he reached the summit of his development with his latest work.”

7. (archaic, figuratively)The highest level of political leadership.
8. (broadly, figuratively)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.

   “They met for an international summit on environmental issues.”

verb

1. (informal, transitive)To reach the summit (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.1) of (a mountain).

   “Of the range's 12 peaks, Mount Saskatchewan is the only one that has yet to be summited.”

2. (informal, intransitive)To reach the summit of a mountain.
3. (intransitive)To attend a summit (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.2.2).

   “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.”

pron

1. (England, Yorkshire, alt-of, alternative, informal)Alternative spelling of summat (“something”).

   “I need to get summit to eat.”

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