"the acme of their basketball season was their hard-won victory over last year's state champs",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But Bach is unique, being both a foundation and an acme . \u2014 Jay Nordlinger, National Review , 20 Dec. 2021",
"The acme of the NFT market \u2014 or the height of its delirium, depending on your point of view \u2014 is probably Beeple. \u2014 New York Times , 12 May 2021",
"The Nobel Prizes for Physics, Chemistry and Medicine are the acme of scientific achievement -- honoring great minds and life-changing discoveries. \u2014 Katie Hunt, CNN , 2 Oct. 2020",
"Another indication of Schwartz\u2019s particular views on photography is that the entire show focuses on work in black-and-white, which for him was the acme of the medium. \u2014 Steven Litt, cleveland , 9 Feb. 2020",
"But the real emotional acme of today\u2019s Small Group occurs when Andrew takes the floor. \u2014 Barrett Swanson, Harper's magazine , 28 Oct. 2019",
"Seizing the castle The Akwamu Empire (1600-1730), at its acme , controlled a territory extending 200 miles along the coast and 100 miles into the interior, with Nyanaose as its capital. \u2014 Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann, Quartz Africa , 13 July 2019",
"For real foodies, though, a robot that can turn its hand to almost anything culinary would be the acme of automation. \u2014 The Economist , 12 July 2018",
"In practice, social democracy has probably reached its acme in the Nordic countries, where the left has ruled governments for most of last half-century. \u2014 John B. Judis, New Republic , 24 Aug. 2017"
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"1560, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"borrowed from Greek akm\u0113\u0301 \"point, highest point, culmination,\" from ak- (going back to Indo-European *h 2 ek\u0301- \"pointed\") + -m\u0113, noun suffix \u2014 more at edge entry 1":""
},
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"\u02c8ak-m\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for acme summit , peak , pinnacle , climax , apex , acme , culmination mean the highest point attained or attainable. summit implies the topmost level attainable. at the summit of the Victorian social scene peak suggests the highest among other high points. an artist working at the peak of her powers pinnacle suggests a dizzying and often insecure height. the pinnacle of worldly success climax implies the highest point in an ascending series. the war was the climax to a series of hostile actions apex implies the point where all ascending lines converge. the apex of Dutch culture acme implies a level of quality representing the perfection of a thing. a statue that was once deemed the acme of beauty culmination suggests the outcome of a growth or development representing an attained objective. the culmination of years of effort",
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": a limpet of the genus Acmaea":[]
},
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"\u02c8ak-m\u0113-\u0259",
"ak-\u02c8m\u0113-\u0259"
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek akmaios at the height, in full bloom, in the prime, from akm\u0113":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-145051"
},
"Acmaeidae":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a family of gastropod mollusks (suborder Docoglossa) comprising the typical limpets with conical shell, fringed mantle, and a single plumelike ctenidium \u2014 see acmaea":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"ak-\u02c8m\u0113-\u0259-\u02ccd\u0113"
],
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"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Acmaea , type genus + -idae":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-151608"
},
"acmonital":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a stainless steel alloy used especially for low-denomination coins especially in Italy and Albania":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"ak-\u02c8m\u00e4-n\u0259-\u02cctal"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Italian, from ac ciaio mon etario ital iano Italian monetary steel":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-180722"
},
"acmite":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a mineral consisting of a brown or green silicate of sodium and iron NaFe(SiO 3 ) 2 belonging to the pyroxene group and often found in long prismatic crystals characteristically pointed (hardness 6\u20136.5, specific gravity 3.50\u20133.55)":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8ak-\u02ccm\u012bt"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"German achmit , from Greek akm\u0113 + German -it -ite":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-105213"
},
"acmic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to the acme or an acme":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8ak-mik"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"acme + -ic or -atic (as in automatic )":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-223356"
},
"acme thread":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an American screw thread having a section that is a mean between the V threads and square threads":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-093247"
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"Acmeism":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"noun,"
],
"definitions":{
": a literary movement among Russian poets in the early 20th century that was characterized by a reaction against the vagueness of symbolism and by an emphasis on clarity":[
"Acmeism , Futurism, and other movements flourished and then were silenced by the Stalin era.",
"\u2014 A. V. Knowles , Notes and Queries , March 1993"
]
},
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"\u02c8ak-m\u0113-\u02cci-z\u0259m"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Russian akmeizm , from Greek akm\u1e17 acme + Russian -izm -ism":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1913, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-165201"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a harrow having curved stiff blades attached to a transverse horizontal frame and projecting rearward that crush the clods in front and stir the surface soil in the rear":[]
