Usually means: Highest point; peak; ultimate end.
Definitions Related words Phrases Mentions Lyrics History Colors (New!)
We found 28 dictionaries that define the word culmination:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. culmination: Merriam-Webster
  2. culmination: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. culmination: Collins English Dictionary
  4. culmination: Vocabulary.com
  5. Culmination, culmination: Wordnik
  6. culmination: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. culmination: Wiktionary
  8. culmination: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. culmination: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. culmination: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Culmination, culmination: Dictionary.com
  12. culmination: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Culmination: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Culmination: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. culmination: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. culmination: Rhymezone
  17. Culmination: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. culmination: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. culmination: FreeDictionary.org
  20. culmination: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. culmination: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. culmination: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. culmination: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. culmination: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Culmination: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Culmination: Extragalactic Astronomy

(Note: See culminations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
)
American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (astronomy) The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit.
noun:  (UK) An endpoint arrived at after some series of actions or events, or some period, usually after the series or period has ended. The sum of something.
noun:  (US) An attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.
noun:  (US, education) A ceremony marking the completion of studies at an elementary school, middle school or junior high school.

Similar:

Opposite:

Types:

Phrases:

Adjectives:

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     platinum,     emerald,     sapphire, more...




Words similar to culmination

Usage examples for culmination

Idioms related to culmination

Wikipedia articles (New!)

Popular adjectives describing culmination

Words that often appear near culmination

Rhymes of culmination

Invented words related to culmination

Similar:

Opposite:

Types:

Phrases:

Adjectives:

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     platinum,     emerald,     sapphire, more...



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.





Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Word games   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Random word   Help


Color thesaurus

Use OneLook to find colors for words and words for colors

See an example

Literary notes

Use OneLook to learn how words are used by great writers

See an example

Word games

Try our innovative vocabulary games

Play Now

Read the latest OneLook newsletter issue: Threepeat Redux