MOUNTAINTOPS Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

mountaintops

noun

plural of mountaintop

as in summits

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Noun

Its official opening this month is the latest sign of warming ties between Beijing and Pyongyang, after two summits between their leaders in the past 13 months.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
Law enforcement was deployed to contain the upheaval, and the government is holding public security summits on Monday to handle future responses.

— Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of summits

Noun

Set the scene The resort sprawls across 10,000 square meters of AlUla’s Ashar Valley, a broad swath of pale desert surrounded by otherworldly rock pinnacles.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
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

Definition of pinnacles

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To guard against birds, the lizards use the sharp horns on the back of their heads to stab at predators that try to seize them in their beaks.

— RJ Mackenzie, Popular Science, 1 Nov. 2026
The idea, Schubarth later told court officials, was to use the genetic material to incubate hybrid sheep with horns larger than any North American rams.

— Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 29 Oct. 2026

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