Definitions
raise on or as if on a pinnacle
Word origin
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French pinacle, pinnacle, from Late Latin pinnāculum (“a peak, pinnacle”), from Latin pinna (“a pinnacle”); see pin. Doublet of panache.
Used in a sentence
“Kings, who remain in many respects the representatives of a vanished world, solitary pinnacles that topple over the rising waste of waters under which the past lies buried.”
“The pinnacle of the effort to fix restrictive meanings to a set of terminology can be found in two papers in American Speech by Feinsilver (1979, 1980).”
“Some renowned metropolis / With glistering spires and pinnacles around.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Lofty spire”8 letters
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