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culminate

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"Reach a peak"

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈkʌl.mɪ.neɪt/Part of speech verbSorted aceilmntuStarts with CEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. rise to, or form, a summit

Word origin

First attested in 1647; borrowed from Medieval Latin culminātus, perfect passive participle of culminō (“to crown”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin culmen (“peak, highest point”, oblique stem culmin-) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), older form columen (“top, summit”), from Proto-Italic *kolamen, from a Proto-Indo-European base *kol-, *kelH- (“to project, rise; peak, summit, top”), whence also English hill and holm.

Used in a sentence

  • As when his beams at noon / Culminate from the equator.
  • The type of Cycads culminated in the Mesozoic
  • The house of Burgundy was rapidly culminating.

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