Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - pinnacle
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Pinnacle
pinnacle
(pinnacles) 1. A pinnacle is a pointed piece of stone or rock that is high above the ground. A walker fell 80ft from a rocky pinnacle. N-COUNT 2. If someone reaches the pinnacle of their career or the pinnacle of a particular area of life, they are at the highest point of it. She was still a screen goddess at the pinnacle of her career. N-COUNT: usu sing, N of n
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English pinacle, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin pinnaculum small wing, gable, from Latin pinna wing, battlement Date: 14th century 1. an upright architectural member generally ending in a small spire and used especially in Gothic construction to give weight especially to a buttress 2. a structure or formation suggesting a ~; specifically a lofty peak 3. the highest point of development or achievement ; acme Synonyms: see summit II. transitive verb (-cled; pinnacling) Date: 14th century 1. to surmount with a ~ 2. to raise or rear on a ~ ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 the culmination or climax (of endeavour, success, etc.). 2 a natural peak. 3 a small ornamental turret usu. ending in a pyramid or cone, crowning a buttress, roof, etc. --v.tr. 1 set on or as if on a pinnacle. 2 form the pinnacle of. 3 provide with pinnacles. Etymology: ME pinacle f. OF pin(n)acle f. LL pinnaculum f. pinna wing, point (as PIN, -CULE) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. архит. бельведер; шпиц 2. остроконечная скала ice pinnacle —- ледяная вершина 3. вершина, кульминационный пункт the pinnacle of fame —- вершина славы on the highest pinnacle of fame (glory) —- на вершние (в зените) славы 4. возносить (на вершину славы и т. п.) success pinnacled him —- успех высоко вознес его 5. редк. быть вершиной, кульминационным пунктом it pinnacles all —- это превосходит все 6. архит. украшать башенками, шпилями ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) остроконечная башенка, бельведер, шпиц 2) вершина; кульминационный пункт Syn: see summit 2. v. 1) возносить 2) украшать башенками ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ n 1 the most successful, powerful, exciting etc part of something + of (By the age of 40, she had reached the pinnacle of her political career.) 2 a pointed stone decoration, like a small tower, on a building such as a church or castle 3 especially literary a high mountain top ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- c.1300, from O.Fr. pinacle, from L.L. pinnaculum "gable," dim. of pinna "peak, point," often confused with penna "wing, feather." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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