culmination English

Meaning culmination meaning

What does culmination mean?

culmination

— noun a final climactic stage their achievements stand as a culmination of centuries of development

— noun (astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon

— noun (= completion) a concluding action

— noun (= climax) the decisive moment in a novel or play the deathbed scene is the climax of the play

Synonyms culmination synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as culmination?

culmination English » English

climax

peak

summit

acme

zenith

top

apogee

apex

vertex

meridian

windup

tip

sticking point

mop up

highlight

high point

crest

completion

closing

watershed

turning point

transit

tip side

sticking place

sharp peak

roof

road to Damascus

point

perfection

nadir

meridian transit

meridian passage

maximum

knob

juncture

jogging

highest pitch

heyday

height

head

extremity

extreme

excess

end

efflorescence

crown

crossroads

crisis

crank point

conjuncture

Topics culmination topics

What do people use culmination to talk about?

States Time Aspectual time Start something

End

• What words refer to the end of something?
  end finish conclusion consummation culmination denouement expiration finale homestretch last outcome termination terminus terminal conclusion time is up that is all

Examples culmination examples

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Movie subtitles

Shows a culmination of internal sexual conflict. generally of old standing. and based on a constitutionally determined chaotic sexual pattern.

The float that will come out as culmination of the campaign. shall be a group of classmates from department uniforms like this, representing the proletariat.

War is an art of becoming, a culmination.

It was the culmination of your determined denial of my genius.

The culmination of four years'hard work by thousands of people.

Behold, the culmination of centuries!

I am the culmination of one man's dream.

This is the culmination of a year-long investigation.

And the culmination of all this ugliness in the universe is Man!

A culmination wherein one Michael Gerald Tyson out of Brooklyn, New York, has emerged resplendent in a crown fitting of a king and become the newest heavyweight champion of the world.

Well, this is the culmination of your work, and guess what?

For you seniors, this marks the culmination of the past four years!

Culmination.

The doctors who examined her before she escaped are telling us Cassandra Spender may be the culmination of 25 years of this group's finest efforts.

So in this picture you're about to see, you'll see the culmination of a long series of such desires to look into the earth.

The real culmination.

It is the culmination of many weeks, many months of devoted work on the part of many people gathered here this evening.

General Reicker, it is the culmination of my not entirely undistinguished military career.

And near their culmination, in the middle of the sky, house 4 is in Gemini, the most mobile, feared sign.

This theft was to have been the culmination of a grand scheme.

Mr MacGyver is also the alumni referee for the culmination of the Barricade Contest, so I know you're going to treat him with deference and respect.

I am thrilled to have the honour of announcing the culmination of mankind's history of scientific achievement!

I'm thrilled to have the honour of announcing the culmination of mankind's scientific achievement!

As the culmination of a four-day whirlwind courtship, the musical world's most eligible bachelor, Allen Brice, will tonight become a benedict.

Here now is the Jupiter 2, the culmination of nearly 40 years of intensive research and the most sophisticated piece of hardware yet devised by the mind of man.

And you will see the culmination of my lives' work.

The student-faculty soccer game is the culmination of Parents' Weekend here at Weinberg!

Orac was the culmination of his life's work.

I had to trade many, many horses to get her back. For I knew that this foal was to be the culmination of all our efforts.

For you seniors, this marks the culmination.

News and current affairs

One had the feeling that this was something akin to dancing on the Titanic - the culmination of a privileged partnership at its tipping point, a grand gala for something that was about to disappear.

Google has taken the logic of loss-making technology to its ultimate culmination of not charging at all for its product.

The event, a review of the progress made since the 2005 World Summit on the Information Society, is the culmination of a three-year negotiation process.

Indeed, 2012 could prove to be the year in which the experiment with the euro, the culmination of a 50-year process of economic and political integration in Europe, comes to an end.

The recent discovery of the Higgs boson was the culmination of a programmatic experimental effort to confirm a theoretical idea, proposed in the 1960s, that lies at the foundation of the standard model of particle physics.

We often think of history as something inevitable, a culmination of great, grinding forces that can only lead to one destination.