pin|na|cle

pin|na|cle
pin|na|cle «PIHN uh kuhl», noun, verb, -cled, -cling.
–n.
1. a high peak or point of rock: »

Far off, three mountaintops, Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset-flush'd (Tennyson).

2. Figurative. the highest point: »

at the pinnacle of one's fame.

SYNONYM(S): apex, top, zenith, acme.
3. a slender turret or spire. A pinnacle is usually ornamental, and terminates in a pyramid or cone, crowns a buttress, or rises above the roof or coping of a building.
–v.t.
1. to put on or as if on a pinnacle.
2. to furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.
3. to form the pinnacle of; crown.
╂[< Old French pinacle, learned borrowing from Latin pinnāculum (diminutive) < pinna peak, point; pinion1]

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