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English
Etymology 1
The noun is derived from Late Middle English somet, somete (“head, top”) , from Anglo-Norman sumet and Middle French sommet (masculine), somete, sommette (“top of a thing; highest point of a mountain”) (feminine) (modern French sommet), from Old French somet, sommette, from som, sum (“highest point, summit”) + -et (suffix forming diminutive masculine nouns), -ete, -ette (suffix forming diminutive feminine nouns). Som, sum are derived from Latin summum (“top, summit”), a noun use of the neuter of summus (“greatest, highest; top, uppermost”, adjective) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *upó (“below, under”) + *-m̥mós, *-tm̥mós (“suffix forming superlative adjectives”)). The modern English spelling was influenced by summity (“height or top of a thing; utmost degree, perfection”) (obsolete).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Pronunciation
Noun
summit (plural summits)
- The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak.
- Synonyms: acme, (obsolete) summity, zenith; see also Thesaurus:summit
- The highest point of a hill, mountain, or similar geographical feature.
In summer, it is possible to hike to the summit of Mount Shasta.
- (mathematics) A vertex of a polygon or polyhedron.
- (nautical, rail transport, road transport) The highest point of a canal, railway, road, etc.
- (obsolete)
- (botany) Synonym of anther (“the pollen-bearing part of the stamen of a flower”); also (rare), synonym of stigma (“the sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination”)
- (crystallography, rare) One of the two vertices of a crystal with a rhombohedral shape where the angles of each face are equal; also, the highest point of a crystal with a pyramidal or tetrahedral shape.
- (figurative)
- The highest point of achievement, development, etc., that can be reached; the acme, the pinnacle.
- (politics)
- (archaic) The highest level of political leadership.
- (by extension) An assembly or gathering of the leaders of countries to discuss issues of international significance; also (loosely), an important or high-level gathering or meeting.
They met for an international summit on environmental issues.
Usage notes
Colloquially, sense 1.1 is used for only the highest point of a mountain, whereas in mountaineering any point that is higher than surrounding points is a summit, such as the South Summit of Mount Everest. These are distinguished by topographic prominence as subsummits (low prominence) or independent summits (high prominence).
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
topmost point or surface of a thing
— see apex,
peak
highest point of a hill, mountain, or similar geographical feature
- Albanian: çukë (sq)
- Arabic: قِمَّة f (qimma)
- Armenian: գագաթ (hy) (gagatʿ)
- Aromanian: angheauã f, cãrciliu n, ciumã f, creashtit n, culmã f
- Azerbaijani: zirvə (az)
- Belarusian: вяршы́ня f (vjaršýnja), пік m (pik), вярху́шка f (vjarxúška)
- Bengali: শিখর (bn) (śikhor)
- Bulgarian: връх (bg) m (vrǎh)
- Burmese: အထွတ် (my) (a.htwat)
- Catalan: cim (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 頂峰/顶峰 (zh) (dǐngfēng), 高峰 (zh) (gāofēng), 尖峰 (zh) (jiānfēng), 最高點/最高点 (zh) (zuìgāodiǎn)
- Czech: vrchol (cs) m, vrcholek m
- Dalmatian: čama m
- Danish: bjergtop (da) c, top (da) c
- Dutch: bergtop (nl) m, piek (nl) f, spits (nl) f, top (nl) m
- Esperanto: pinto (eo)
- Estonian: mäetipp, tipp
- Finnish: huippu (fi), vuorenhuippu (fi)
- French: sommet (fr) m
- Galician: barrouca f, cume (gl) m, cumio (gl) m, curuto m, irla (gl) f, píncaro m, pruída f, topo (gl) m
- Georgian: მწვერვალი (mc̣vervali)
- German: Gipfel (de) m
- Greek: κορυφή (el) f (koryfí)
- Ancient: ἄκρον n (ákron), κολοφών m (kolophṓn), ῥίον n (rhíon)
- Hebrew: פִּסְגָּה (he) f (pisgá)
- Hindi: चोटी (hi) f (coṭī), शिखर (hi) m (śikhar)
- Hungarian: csúcs (hu)
- Ilocano: tuktuk ti bantay
- Irish: mullach m, uachtar (ga) m
- Istriot: seîma f
- Italian: summit (it) m, somma (it) f, cima (it) f, colmo (it) m, culmine (it) m, picco (it) m, pinnacolo (it) m
- Japanese: 頂上 (ja) (ちょうじょう, chōjō), 頂 (ja) (いただき, itadaki), 山頂 (ja) (さんちょう, sanchō), 最高点 (さいこうてん, saikōten)
- Kazakh: шың (şyñ)
- Khmer: ចម (km) (cɑɑm), កំពូល (km) (kɑmpuul), កោណន្ត (kaonɑn), សិខា (km) (sekhaa)
- Korean: 정상(頂上) (ko) (jeongsang), 꼭대기 (ko) (kkokdaegi), 산정(山頂) (ko) (sanjeong), 산꼭대기 (sankkokdaegi)
- Kyrgyz: чоку (ky) (coku)
- Lao: ຈອມ (chǭm), ຍອດ (nyǭt), ປາຍ (pāi), ປອມ (pǭm)
- Latin: apex m, columen n
- Latvian: kalngals m, virsotne (lv) f
- Lithuanian: viršukalnė f, viršū́nė f
- Lubuagan Kalinga: tuktuk
- Macedonian: врв m (vrv)
- Malay: puncak (ms)
- Malayalam: കൊടുമുടി (ml) (koṭumuṭi)
- Manx: ard-veinn
- Maori: keokeonga, kōtihitihi, taumata, tihi, toi
- Neapolitan: tuppo m
- Nepali: शिखर (śikhar)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fjelltopp m
- Nynorsk: fjelltopp m
- Old English: copp m
- Ottoman Turkish: قله (kulle)
- Pashto: پېړزه f (peṛza), قله f (qola), ذروه f (zarwa)
- Persian: قله (fa) (qolle)
- Piedmontese: sima f
- Polish: szczyt (pl) m, wierch (pl) m, wierzchołek (pl) m
- Portuguese: cume (pt) m, sumo (pt) m
- Romanian: summit n, culme (ro) f, vârf (ro) n
- Russian: пик (ru) m (pik), верши́на (ru) f (veršína), верху́шка (ru) f (verxúška)
- Sanskrit: शिखर (sa) (śikhara), शिरस् (sa) n (śiras)
- Scottish Gaelic: mullach m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: вр̏х m
- Roman: vȑh (sh) m
- Sherpa: please add this translation if you can
- Sicilian: cima (scn) f, curma (scn) f, pizzu (scn) m
- Slovak: vrchol m, vrcholok m
- Slovene: višek m, vrh (sl) m, vrhunec m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: wjerch m
- Southern Kalinga: tuktuk
- Spanish: cima (es) f, cumbre (es) f, pico (es) m
- Swedish: bergstopp (sv), topp (sv) c
- Tagalog: ituktok, taluktok
- Tajik: қулла (qulla)
- Tamil: உச்சி (ta) (ucci)
- Telugu: శిఖరాగ్రం (śikharāgraṁ)
- Thai: จอม (th) (jɔɔm), ยอด (th) (yɔ̂ɔt)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Tocharian B: mrāce, tsankär
- Turkish: zirve (tr)
- Tuwali Ifugao: tuktuk
- Ukrainian: пік m (pik), верши́на f (veršýna), верхі́вка f (verxívka)
- Urdu: چوٹی f (coṭī)
- Uzbek: choʻqqi (uz)
- Venetian: sima f
- Vietnamese: chỏm (vi), chóp (vi), đỉnh (vi),
- Volapük: sömit (vo), belasömit
- Welsh: copa
- Yiddish: שפּיץ m or f (shpits)
- Zazaki: sersıq m
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vertex of a polygon or polyhedron
— see vertex
highest point of a canal, railway, road, etc.
highest point of achievement, development, etc., that can be reached
— see acme,
pinnacle
highest level of political leadership
- Finnish: ylin johto
- Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
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assembly or gathering of the leaders of countries to discuss issues of international significance
- Albanian: samit m
- Arabic: إِجْتِمَاع قِمَّة m (ʔijtimāʕ qimma)
- Armenian: գագաթնաժողով (hy) (gagatʿnažoġov)
- Belarusian: са́міт m (sámit), сустрэ́ча f (sustréča) (на вышэ́йшым узро́ўні, ў вярха́х)
- Bengali: সামিট (śamiṭ)
- Bulgarian: сре́ща (bg) f (sréšta) (на най-висо́ко равни́ще)
- Burmese: ထိပ်သီးညီလာခံ (my) (htipsi:nyilahkam)
- Catalan: cimera (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 峰會/峰会 (zh) (fēnghuì), 高峰會議/高峰会议 (zh) (gāofēng huìyì), 首腦會議/首脑会议 (zh) (shǒunǎo huìyì)
- Czech: summit (cs) m
- Danish: topmøde (da) n
- Dutch: topconferentie (nl) f, topontmoeting (nl)
- Esperanto: pintkunveno
- Estonian: tippkohtumine
- Finnish: huippukokous (fi)
- French: sommet (fr) m
- Galician: cumio (gl) m
- German: Gipfel (de) m, Gipfeltreffen (de) n
- Greek: σύνοδος (el) f (sýnodos)
- Hebrew: פִּסְגָּה (he) f (pisgá)
- Hindi: समावेश (hi) m (samāveś), सम्मेलन (hi) m (sammelan)
- Hungarian: csúcstalálkozó (hu)
- Indonesian: konferensi tingkat tinggi, KTT (id)
- Italian: summit (it) m, incontro al vertice, vertice (it) m
- Japanese: サミット (ja) (samitto), 首脳会談 (ja) (しゅのうかいだん, shunō kaidan)
- Kazakh: саммит (sammit)
- Korean: 서밋 (seomit), 수뇌회담(首腦會談) (ko) (sunoehoedam)
- Kyrgyz: саммит (sammit)
- Latvian: samits m
- Lithuanian: samitas m
- Macedonian: самит m (samit)
- Malay: sidang kemuncak
- Malayalam: ഉച്ചകോടി (ml) (uccakōṭi)
- Maori: hui taumata
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: toppmøte (no) n
- Nynorsk: toppmøte n
- Pashto: لويه جرګه (loya jirga)
- Persian: اجلاس سران (fa) (ejlâs-e sarân), جرگه بزرگ (jarge-ye bozorg)
- Polish: szczyt (pl) m
- Portuguese: cimeira (pt) f (Portugal), cúpula (pt) f (Brazil)
- Russian: са́ммит (ru) m (sámmit), встре́ча (ru) f (vstréča) (на вы́сшем у́ровне, в верха́х), встреча в верхах f (vstreča v verxax)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: са̀мит m
- Roman: sàmit (sh) m
- Sicilian: summit m, macadaru di vèrtici m, vèrtici m
- Slovak: samit m
- Slovene: vrhunsko srečanje n
- Spanish: cumbre (es) f
- Swedish: ledningsmöte n (of organizational leaders), ministermöte n (of ministers or departmental secretaries), möte (sv) n (any gathering), toppmöte (sv) n (of state leaders)
- Tatar: summit
- Telugu: శిఖరాగ్ర సమావేశం (śikharāgra samāvēśaṁ)
- Thai: การประชุมสุดยอด (gaan-bprà-chum-sùt-yɔ̂ɔt)
- Turkish: zirve (tr)
- Turkmen: sammit
- Ukrainian: са́міт m (sámit), зу́стріч f (zústrič) (у верха́х)
- Uzbek: sammit (uz)
- Vietnamese: hội nghị cấp cao nhất, hội nghị thượng đỉnh
- Zazaki: berzin
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important or high-level gathering or meeting
Verb
summit (third-person singular simple present summits, present participle summiting or summitting, simple past and past participle summited or summitted)
- (transitive, climbing, informal) To reach the summit (noun sense 1.1) of (a mountain).
2012 July–August, Kenza Moller, “Eyes on the North”, in Canadian Geographic, volume 132, number 4, Ottawa: Royal Canadian Geographical Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:Of the range's 12 peaks, Mount Saskatchewan is the only one that has yet to be summited.
- (intransitive)
- (climbing, informal) To reach the summit of a mountain.
- (politics) To attend a summit (noun sense 2.2.2).
Translations
(transitive) to reach the summit of (a mountain)
(intransitive) to reach the summit of a mountain
- Finnish: päästä huipulle
- Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
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(intransitive) to attend a summit
Etymology 2
A variant of summat.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
summit
- (England, especially Lancashire, Yorkshire, informal) Alternative spelling of summat (“something”)
I need to get summit to eat.
References
- ^ “somet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “summit, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ “summit, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2023.
- ^ “summit, v.2”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “summit, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English summit.
Pronunciation
Noun
summit m (invariable)
- summit (gathering of leaders)
- Synonyms: vertice, conferenza
References
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English summit.
Noun
summit n (plural summituri)
- summit
Declension
Swedish
Verb
summit
- supine of simma (strong inflection)
Anagrams
Tatar
Etymology
Borrowed from English summit.
Noun
summit
- summit
İnvestitsiä Summitı- Investment summit
References