culmination


Also found in: Dictionary, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
Graphic Thesaurus  🔍
Display ON
Animation ON
Legend
Synonym
Antonym
Related
  • noun

Synonyms for culmination

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for culmination

The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Synonyms for culmination

a final climactic stage

Synonyms

Related Words

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

the decisive moment in a novel or play

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
References in classic literature ?
The culmination of Maggie's career as an admired member of society in St.
It was so feeble and inconsistent a culmination to the beautiful scenery they had passed through, so hopeless and imbecile a conclusion to the preparation of that long picturesque journey, with its glimpses of sylvan and pastoral glades and canyons, that, as the coach swept down the last incline, and the remorseless monotony of the dead level spread out before them, furrowed by ditches and indented by pits, under cover of shielding their cheeks from the impalpable dust that rose beneath the plunging wheels, they buried their faces in their handkerchiefs, to hide a few half-hysterical tears.
As she ran her needle in and out of the wool, she thought of the various stages in her own life which made her present position seem the culmination of successive miracles.
"But you haven't answered my questions," she reproached him, as she emerged, rosy and radiant, from the embrace that had accompanied the culmination of his narrative.
It was in the year 1976 that the trouble between the world and China reached its culmination. It was because of this that the celebration of the Second Centennial of American Liberty was deferred.
It was during the reign of James I that the long series of sixteenth century translations of the Bible reached its culmination in what we have already called the greatest of all English books (or rather, collections of books), the King James ('Authorized') version.
He had entitled the story "Adventure," and it was the apotheosis of adventure - not of the adventure of the storybooks, but of real adventure, the savage taskmaster, awful of punishment and awful of reward, faithless and whimsical, demanding terrible patience and heartbreaking days and nights of toil, offering the blazing sunlight glory or dark death at the end of thirst and famine or of the long drag and monstrous delirium of rotting fever, through blood and sweat and stinging insects leading up by long chains of petty and ignoble contacts to royal culminations and lordly achievements.
Summary: New Delhi [India], Aug 21 (ANI): With the culmination of its successful membership drive, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) increased its strength nearly by 3 crore members, taking it to over 14.78 crore.
Pandi said the rido settlement involving the six families 'is the culmination of all rido' in Poona-Bayabao, suggesting that the minor ones have also been resolved with it.
Summary: The culmination of these races meant Alexander was boosted into the overall lead with a three second gap over Kristoffer Halvorsen (Team Ineos) and five...
MUZAFFARABAD -- The District Magistrate of the AJK capital district Muzaffarabad Baddar Munir has announced the closure of all public and private sector offices in the district including the schools on Monday (January 21) following the observing culmination of grand Urs function at the shrine of famous Saint ' Syed Sakhi Sahaili Sarkar' with the spiritual zeal and zest.
To mark the conclusion of two-week duration exercise, an august culmination ceremony was held today.
To mark the conclusion of exercise, an august culmination ceremony was held today.
To mark the conclusion this exercise, an august culmination ceremony was held today.
To mark the conclusion of the two-week exercise, an august culmination ceremony was held where Deputy Chief of the Air Staff (Operations) Air Marshal Muhammad Haseeb Paracha was the chief guest, a PAF press release said.