Definition of Summit

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Definition of Summit
	Summit The top; the highest point. The highest degree; the utmost elevation; the acme; as, the summit of human fame. The most elevated part of a bivalve shell, or the part in which the hinge is situated. Related Definitions: Acme, As, Bivalve, Degree, Elevated, Elevation, Fame, Hinge, Human, In, Is, Most, Of, Or, Part, Point, Shell, Situated, Summit, The, Top, Utmost, Which

Summit Quotations

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
Marcel Proust

President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.
Conan O'Brien

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
Victor Hugo

More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.
Jon Stewart

The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.
Barry Goldwater

Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.
Morihei Ueshiba

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
Jack London

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
Daniel Boone

The Palestinian must stop throwing stones, and the Israelis must stop firing rockets. And in the view of the Sharm el-Sheikh summit, rockets are equal to stones.
Hassan Nasrallah

St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

Summit Translations

summit in Danish is spids, top, overflade
summit in Dutch is spits, punt, top, tip, neus, piek
summit in German is Gipfel
summit in Swedish is topp

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