Meaning

The highest point..

Definitions by Sense

1. The highest point.
2. (geology) A tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain.
3. (figuratively) An all-time high; a point of greatest achievement or success.
4. (architecture) 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.
5. (transitive) To place on a pinnacle.
6. (transitive) To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.

Example Sentences

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.

And down this vast gulf upon which we were pinnacled the great draught dashed and roared, driving clouds and misty wreaths of vapour before it, till we were nearly blinded, and utterly confused.

The pediment of the Southern Transept is pinnacled, not inelegantly, with a flourished cross

Word Forms

• pinnacles
• pinnacling
• pinnacled

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