Usually means: Highest point of achievement, development.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. pinnacle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pinnacle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pinnacle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pinnacle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pinnacle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pinnacle, pinnacle: Wordnik
  7. pinnacle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pinnacle: Wiktionary
  9. pinnacle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pinnacle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pinnacle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Pinnacle, pinnacle: Dictionary.com
  13. pinnacle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. pinnacle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pinnacle (TV program), Pinnacle (disambiguation), Pinnacle (geology), Pinnacle, The Pinnacle (Chicago), The Pinnacle (Guangzhou), The Pinnacle (London), The Pinnacle (Nairobi), The Pinnacle (Pennsylvania): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pinnacle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pinnacle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pinnacle: Rhymezone
  19. pinnacle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pinnacle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. pinnacle: Free Dictionary
  22. pinnacle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pinnacle: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. pinnacle: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. PINNACLE: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  3. Glossary: Gothic Art and Architecture (No longer online)
  4. pinnacle: Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. pinnacle: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pinnacle: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pinnacle: Castle Terms
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pinnacle: Easton Bible
  2. Pinnacle: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pinnacle: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pinnacle: Glossary of Medieval Architecture
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See pinnacled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The highest point.
noun:  (geology) A tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain.
noun:  (figuratively) An all-time high; a point of greatest achievement or success.
noun:  (architecture) An upright member, generally ending in a small spire, used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire.
verb:  (transitive) To place on a pinnacle.
verb:  (transitive) To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.

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