summit

Noun

• a meeting of heads of governments

• the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
  • the view from the peak was magnificent
    
  • they clambered to the tip of Monadnock
    
  • the region is a few molecules wide at the summit
    

• the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
  • his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty
    
  • the artist's gifts are at their acme
    
  • at the height of her career
    
  • the peak of perfection
    
  • summer was at its peak
    
  • ...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame
    
  • the summit of his ambition
    
  • so many highest superlatives achieved by man
    
  • at the top of his profession
    

Verb

• reach the summit (of a mountain)
  • They breasted the mountain
    
  • Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  summit meeting , peak , crown , crest , top , tip , breast