zenith

noun

ˈzē-nəth How to pronounce zenith (audio)
Definition of zenithnext
as in pinnacle
the highest part or point at the zenith of her career as a dancer

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Recent Examples of zenith The garden was at its late-summer zenith, supplying 95 percent of the ingredients for the restaurant—the first in Tasmania to be ranked Australia’s best, in 2024, by the country’s Gourmet Traveller magazine. — Adam Erace, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2026 Civilizations could have risen to their zenith and crumbled in the time our micrometeoroid spent traversing the unfeeling expanse of interplanetary space, but its demise lasted but a fraction of a second. — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 21 July 2026 There was a time when the odd chart slot and a feature on the soundtrack of the latest FIFA game would mark the mainstream zenith of a breakthrough junglist. — Will Pritchard, Pitchfork, 20 July 2026 Complicating matters is that the moon is closest to an observer (and therefore is largest in the sky) when directly overhead, at the zenith. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 17 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for zenith
Recent Examples of Synonyms for zenith
  1. pinnacle
  2. height
  3. peak
  4. culmination
  5. top
  6. apex
Noun
  • The performances made history as the biggest ever open-air concerts in the UK (the crowd numbered 125,000 both days) and are often cited as representing the pinnacle of the Britpop era.
    — Devinder Bains, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The line, which belongs to the near-unanimous greatest player of all time and is still widely considered to be the pinnacle of signature athletic footwear, has fallen out of favor with hoopers, and the data backs it up.
    — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of pinnacle
Noun
  • Competitors had to lift them onto podiums at different heights in the quickest time possible.
    — Rob Tanner, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The height variations alone generated strong ESM signals, proving that false data could appear out of thin air.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of height
Noun
  • At the peak of the outbreak, before the recall, more than 1,000 infections were reported in a single day.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2026
  • Be sure to plan your trip around mid-to-late October, when autumnal foliage is at its peak, and hit hiking trails that come alive with color, like the Croda da Lago Circuit and its reflective alpine lake, Lago di Federa.
    — Jessica Sulima, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of peak
Noun
  • The public warnings are the culmination of growing concern globally about the capability of AI, following numerous cyberattacks and security incidents in recent months by rogue models developed by both OpenAI and Anthropic.
    — Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The occasion was the culmination of five years of planning, according to officials, and will help local firefighters and federal agencies work hand in hand.
    — Noah Daly, Idaho Statesman, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of culmination
Noun
  • But Siniaková, unlike many women at the top of the doubles leaderboard, is not strictly a doubles specialist.
    — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • When the sequence was complete, the roof had disappeared into the rear of the car, turning this enormous Cadillac into an open-top grand tourer.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of top
Noun
  • His work has helped people learn that the apex predators are around humans more often than once thought.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The largest Tyrannosaurus rex fossils ever discovered belong to a 66-million-year-old apex predator named Scotty.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of apex

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