Definitions
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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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Reach a peak”9 letters
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