Synonyms for peak
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Summit — the highest value reached by some quantity in a time period
summit, pinnacle, apex, zenith, crown, high point, acme, apogee, extreme, climax, vertex, apotheosis, culmination, capstone, culmen, noontide
4. Visor — visor (horizontal part of a cap sticking out in front and shading the wearer's eyes)
Other
point, tip, spire, green pea galaxy, extremum, wampum, wampumpeag rare
Definitions
- n. 1
The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
The stock market reached a peak in September 1929.
- n. 2
visor (horizontal part of a cap sticking out in front and shading the wearer's eyes)
- n. 3
A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
- n. 4
The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
They reached the peak after 8 hours of climbing.
Related words
- Word family
- peaker peakish peakist peaknik peaked peaky
- Phrases
- peak season peak body peak detector peak hour peak organisation peak trans
- Other spellings
- pea peag
Forms
- Plural
- peaks → summits, pinnacles, apexes, zeniths…
Example sentences
- summit The whole world is watching the summit conference.
- apex The polar bear is the apex predator of the Arctic.
- pinnacle Australia is a pinnacle of social progress.
- zenith His fame was at its zenith at that time.
- height Nikita Khrushchev was at the height of his powers.
- crest The neural crest is found in embryonic structures.
By length
- 3 letters
- top1, tip1
- 4 letters
- bill1, apex2, acme2
- 5 letters
- point1, prime1, crown1, bloom1, flush1, crest1, spire1, visor2
- 6 letters
- height1, flower2, summit2, climax2, vertex2, zenith2, heyday2, apogee3, wampum2, culmen
- 7 letters
- extreme2, blossom2
- 8 letters
- pinnacle3, meridian4, capstone2, extremum, noontide
- 9 letters
- elevation4
- 10 letters
- apotheosis5, wampumpeag
- 11 letters
- culmination4, superlative4
- 13 letters
- efflorescence
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (apex2 = 2 syllables).