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/ˈzɛn.ɪθ/ · noun
(astronomy) The point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer; the point in the celestial sphere opposite the nadir..
The 12 day wee had the wind high and large ſo that in two dayes ſaile we made the Sunne our Zenith or verticall point[…]
In this 10th m. appeared that prodigious Comett the tayl whereof was like the blade of a double edged sword, and reached almost from the horizon to the zenith.
In the east a pillar of cloud reared from horizon to zenith, with a kind of arm outstretched like a threatening colossus.
[…] in the middle of the day, when the sun was in the zenith, the violence of the heat was too great to stir out […]
As far to the west as Monica could see, her world was a sea of fog, […]. Above it arched a cerulean sky; as the sun climbed to the zenith, […], the fog gradually took on a bluish tinge.
Winning the continental championship was the zenith of my career.
I find my zenith doth depend upon / A most auspicious star.
It was during those civil troubles […] this aspiring family reached the zenith.
Use zenith when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Zenith means (astronomy) The point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer; the point in the celestial sphere opposite the nadir..
Common synonyms include acme, apogee, culmination, pinnacle.
Possible antonyms include antizenith, nadir, perigee.
The 12 day wee had the wind high and large ſo that in two dayes ſaile we made the Sunne our Zenith or verticall point[…]
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