Synonyms of the word

pinnacle

• n. The highest point.
• n. A tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain.
• n. (figuratively) An all-time high; a point of greatest achievement or success.
• n. (architecture) An upright member, generally ending in a small spire, used to finish a buttress, to constitute…
• v. to put something on a pinnacle.
• v. to build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.

acme

• n. The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination.
• n. (medicine) The crisis or height of a disease.
• n. Mature age; full bloom of life.

crest

• n. A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the…
• n. The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on or displayed on a helmet; the distinctive ornament…
• n. (heraldry): A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually on a helmet above it, sometimes (as for clerics)…
• n. The upper curve of a horse's neck.
• n. The ridge or top of a wave.
• n. The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
• n. The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
• n. The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.
• n. The top line of a slope or embankment.
• n. A design or logo, especially one of an institution, association or high-class family.
• n. Any of several birds in the family Regulidae, including the goldcrests and firecrests.
• v. Particularly with reference to waves, to reach a peak.
• v. To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.
• v. To mark with lines or streaks like waving plumes.

crown

• n. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
• n. (heraldry) A representation of such a headdress, as in heraldry; it may even be that only the image exists,…
• n. A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
• n. (by extension) Any reward of victory or a mark of honor.
• n. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
• n. (metonymically) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
• n. (by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
• n. The topmost part of the head.
• n. The highest part of a hill.
• n. The top section of a hat, above the brim.
• n. The raised centre of a road.
• n. The highest part of an arch.
• n. Splendor; culmination; acme.
• n. Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation)…
• n. (historical) A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.
• n. (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
• n. (forestry) The top of a tree.
• n. (anatomy) The part of a tooth above the gums.
• n. (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
• n. (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling.
• n. (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet.
• n. (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The bights formed by the turns of a cable.
• n. (paper) A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 inches x 15 inches.
• n. (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central…
• n. (medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina.
• n. (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening.
• n. The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
• n. The dome of a furnace.
• n. (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
• n. (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
• n. A whole turkey with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
• n. (African-American colloquialism) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; elliptical for…
• adj. Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
• adj. Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
• v. To place a crown on the head of.
• v. To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
• v. To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
• v. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
• v. To declare (someone) a winner.
• v. (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the…
• v. (transitive) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as…
• v. To hit on the head.
• v. (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video…
• v. (board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
• v. (firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
• v. (military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
• v. (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
• v. (obsolete) past participle of crow.

degree

• n. (obsolete outside heraldry) A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder.
• n. An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
• n. A stage of rank or privilege; social standing.
• n. (genealogy) A ‘step’ in genealogical descent.
• n. (now rare) One's relative state or experience; way, manner.
• n. The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent.
• n. A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university…
• n. (geometry) A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle's circumference.
• n. (physics) A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
• n. (mathematics) The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.
• n. (graph theory) The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.
• n. (logic) The number of logical connectives in a formula.
• n. (surveying) The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc…

elevate

• v. (transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position; to lift.
• v. (transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
• v. (transitive) To ennoble or honour/honor (someone).
• v. (transitive) To lift someone's spirits; to cheer up.
• v. (transitive) To increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound.
• v. (dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.
• v. (obsolete, Latinism) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.
• adj. (obsolete) Elevated; raised aloft.

elevation

• n. The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons,…
• n. The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation.
• n. That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station.
• n. The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between…
• n. The angle which the style makes with the substylar line.
• n. The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle…
• n. (architecture) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the…
• n. (Christianity) The raising of the host—representing Christ’s body—in a mass or Holy Communion service.

height

• n. The distance from the base of something to the top.
• n. The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the…
• n. The highest point or maximum degree.
• n. A mountain, especially a very high one.
• n. (Sussex) An area of land at the top of a cliff.

level

• adj. The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
• adj. At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
• adj. Unvaried in frequency.
• adj. Unvaried in volume.
• adj. Calm.
• adj. In the same position or rank.
• adj. Straightforward; direct; clear.
• adj. Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
• adj. (phonetics) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection ; monotonic.
• n. A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
• n. A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
• n. Degree or amount.
• n. (computer science) Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
• n. (video games) One of several discrete segments of a game generally increasing in difficulty. Often numbered…
• n. (role-playing games, video games) A numeric value that quantifies a character's experience and power.
• n. A floor of a multi-storey building.
• n. (Britain) An area of almost perfectly flat land.
• n. (Singapore, education) A school grade or year.
• v. To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
• v. To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
• v. (role-playing games, video games) To progress to the next level.
• v. To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
• v. (sports) To make the score of a game equal.
• v. (nonstandard, rare) To levy.
• v. (figuratively) To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege,…
• v. To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
• v. (usually with "with") To speak honestly and openly with.

lift

• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
• v. (transitive, slang) To steal. (for this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic…
• v. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.).
• v. (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
• v. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
• v. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
• v. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
• v. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
• v. (computing, programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
• n. An act of lifting or raising.
• n. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between…
• n. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
• n. (measurement) the difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated…
• n. (historical slang) A thief.
• n. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
• n. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
• n. an improvement in mood.
• n. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
• n. A rise; a degree of elevation.
• n. A lift gate.
• n. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or…
• n. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
• n. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
• n. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

meridian

• n. (geography) An imaginary great circle on the Earth's surface, passing through the geographic poles.
• n. Either half of such a great circle, all points of which have the same longitude.
• n. (astronomy) A great circle passing through the poles of the celestial sphere and the zenith for a particular…
• n. (mathematics) A similar line on any general surface of revolution.
• n. (alternative medicine) Any of the pathways on the body along which the vital energy is thought to flow…
• n. The highest point, as of success, prosperity, etc.; culmination.
• n. (printing, US, dated) The size of type between double great primer and canon, standardized as 44-point.
• adj. Meridional; relating to a meridian.
• adj. Relating to noon.
• adj. Relating to the highest point or culmination.

peak

• n. A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
• n. The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
• n. (geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
• n. (geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
• n. (nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
• n. (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
• n. (nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
• n. (mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is…
• v. To reach a highest degree or maximum.
• v. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
• v. (intransitive) To become sick or wan.
• v. (intransitive) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
• v. (intransitive) To pry; to peep slyly.
• v. Misspelling of pique.

point

• n. A discrete division of something.
• n. A sharp extremity.
• n. (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
• n. (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
• n. (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
• n. Lace worked by the needle.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
• n. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
• n. (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
• n. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
• n. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
• n. (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
• n. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
• v. (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or…
• v. (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
• v. (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive) To direct toward an object; to aim.
• v. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
• v. (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
• v. (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or…
• v. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
• v. (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
• v. (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
• v. (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
• v. (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location…
• v. (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
• v. (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting…
• v. (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
• v. (obsolete) To appoint.
• v. (dated) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to point out.

raise

• v. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
• v. (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
• v. (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
• v. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
• v. (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
• v. (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof…
• v. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or…
• v. (computing) To throw (an exception).
• n. (US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
• n. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
• n. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
• n. (poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
• n. A cairn or pile of stones.

spire

• n. (now rare) The stalk or stem of a plant.
• n. A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
• n. A sharp or tapering point.
• n. A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features…
• n. The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
• n. (mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
• v. (of a seed, plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
• v. To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To breathe.
• n. One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
• n. A spiral.
• n. (geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.

stage

• n. A phase.
• n. A platform, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
• n. A floor or storey of a house.
• n. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
• n. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
• n. A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.
• n. (dated) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
• n. (dated) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked…
• n. (electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
• n. The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
• n. (video games) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.
• n. A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
• n. (geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
• v. To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
• v. To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
• v. (Of a protest or strike etc.) To carry out.
• v. To place in position to prepare for use.

steeple

• n. A tall tower, often on a church, normally topped with a spire.
• n. A spire.
• v. (transitive) To form something into the shape of a steeple.

summit

• n. (countable) A peak; the top of a mountain.
• n. (countable) A gathering or assembly of leaders.
• v. (transitive, hiking, climbing, colloquial) To reach the summit of a mountain.

superlative

• n. The highest extent or degree of something.
• n. (grammar) The form of an adjective that expresses which of several items has the highest degree of the…
• n. (informal) An adjective used to praise something exceptional.
• adj. Exceptionally good; of the highest quality; superb.
• adj. (grammar) Of or relating to a superlative.

surmount

• v. To get over; to overcome.
• v. To cap; to sit on top off.

tip

• n. The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
• n. A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility…
• n. (music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) A small piece of meat.
• n. A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
• n. A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
• v. (transitive) To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
• v. (ergative) (To cause) to knock over, make fall down or overturn.
• v. (ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
• v. (transitive, slang, dated) To drink.
• v. (transitive) To dump (refuse).
• v. (US, transitive) To pour a libation, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
• v. (transitive) To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
• n. (skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle.
• n. An act of tipping up or tilting.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse,…
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, by extension) A recycling centre.
• n. (colloquial) A very untidy place.
• n. The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips.
• v. (now rare) To hit quickly and lightly; to tap.
• n. (now rare) A light blow or tap.
• v. To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
• v. (thieves′ slang) To give, pass.
• n. A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token…
• n. A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting…
• n. A piece of advice.
• v. To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
• n. (African American Vernacular) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
• n. (African American Vernacular) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.

tiptop

• n. The very topmost point.
• n. (figuratively) The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything.

top

• n. The highest part or component of an object.
• n. A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top.
• n. (heading) Someone who is eminent.
• n. (BDSM) A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
• n. (LGBT, slang) A man penetrating or with a preference for penetrating during homosexual intercourse.
• n. (physics) A top quark.
• n. The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
• n. (ropemaking) A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the…
• n. (sound) Highest pitch or loudest.
• n. (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been…
• n. (obsolete, except in one sense of phrase on top of) Eve; verge; point.
• n. The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
• n. (in the plural, slang, dated) Topboots.
• n. (golf) A stroke on the top of the ball.
• n. (golf) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top.
• n. (in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group…
• v. To cover on the top or with a top.
• v. To cut or remove the top (as of a tree).
• v. To excel, to surpass, to beat.
• v. To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
• v. (Britain, slang) To commit suicide, (rare) to murder.
• v. (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
• v. (slang, gay sexuality) To be the partner who penetrates in anal sex.
• v. (archaic) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.
• v. (archaic) To predominate.
• v. (archaic) To excel; to rise above others.
• v. (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
• v. (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
• v. To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
• v. (slang, dated) To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top.
• v. (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
• v. To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior…
• v. To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
• v. (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this…
• adj. Situated on the top of something.
• adj. (informal) Best; of the highest quality or rank.
• adj. (informal) Very good, of high quality.
• adv. Rated first.