Dictionary Entry
culminate
culminate is a 9-letter English word with 8 senses as intransitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 18 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.
- 2intransitive verb
To reach the highest point, as of rank, size, power, numbers, etc.
- 3adjective
Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth; -- applied to the growth of corals.
- 4verb
rise to, or form, a summit
"The helmet culminated in a crest"
- 5verb
bring to a head or to the highest point
"Seurat culminated pointillism"
- 6verb
end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
"The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace"
Synonyms
- 7verb
reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body
- 8verb
reach the highest or most decisive point
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