EGAVE

culmination

About 1.86 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit.
  2. noun An endpoint arrived at after some series of actions or events, or some period, usually after the series or period has ended. The sum of something.
  3. noun An attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.
  4. noun A ceremony marking the completion of studies at an elementary school, middle school or junior high school.

Similar words

apogee mop up climax closing windup completion zenith apex endpoint crystallization

Often followed by

of in and to is was point at or

Word family

culminations

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