MOUNTAINTOPS Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

mountaintops

noun

plural of mountaintop

as in summits

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Noun

The clearest evidence of this is that Australia, Japan, South Korea, and New Zealand have now become regular participants of the NATO summits, despite not being members.

— Huong Le-Thu, Time, 22 July 2026
Banners of snow whipped horizontally from their dread summits.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 July 2026

Definition of summits

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 Ed Sullivan Theater, which first opened in 1927, is a 13-story shadow box preserving bits from a rich history of pop culture pinnacles past.

— Edward Segarra, USA Today, 2 July 2026

Definition of pinnacles

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The air is full of the sounds of hundreds of conversations, the crackling of potato chip bags and the beeping horns of trams that race by with passengers who are running late.

— Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
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

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