MOUNTAINTOP Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

mountaintop

noun

Definition of mountaintop

as in summit

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Recent Examples of mountaintop Perched on a Chilean mountaintop, the telescope will point its eye at the southern sky for the next 10 years, taking hundreds of images per night. — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026 The observatory started initial operation last year and is perched on a mountaintop in Chile’s Atacama Desert, where dry air and clear skies make for optimal viewing conditions. — Miriam Waldvogel, Washington Post, 30 June 2026 One showed Thomas on a mountaintop, swinging shirtless from a summit cross at the moment of conquest. — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026 The highest of highs and the lowest of lows could be felt at the end of the game that's arguably considered the NFL mountaintop for any football player, and no one knows that better than the person who is married to one. — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 27 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for mountaintop

Recent Examples of Synonyms for mountaintop

Noun

The deal was announced at an AI summit in San Francisco with South Korean officials including President Lee Jae Myung.

— Kif Leswing, CNBC, 25 July 2026
After another major Interstate 80 shutdown this week, Placer County Supervisor Cindy Gustafson is bringing together state, federal and local officials for a summit to find ways to reduce serious crashes along the mountain freeway corridor.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 23 July 2026

Definition of summit

Noun

Fourteen years earlier, his debut feature, Ossessione, had effectively birthed Italian neorealism, and Visconti had followed it up with La Terra Trema (1948), one of the absolute pinnacles of the movement.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 July 2026
The same cannot be said of GB1, the new brand name for Ainslie’s fourth assault on the America’s Cup, regarded as the pinnacle of international sailing.

— Andrew Rice, New York Times, 24 July 2026

Definition of pinnacle

Noun

On the side of the highway, the night is a cacophony of blaring horns and the shouts of drunken men.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
But while Momsen was opening a concert, AC/DC was presiding over something that felt like a reunion, judging by the sea of black T-shirts, blinking red devil horns and giant cups of beer.

— Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 22 July 2026