culminate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- windup derivation
- climax derivation
- climax derivation
- culmination derivation
Sense 2 verb
bring to a head or to the highest point
Seurat culminated pointillism
Types & categories
- terminate hypernym
Related & opposite
- culmination derivation
Sense 3 verb
reach the highest or most decisive point
Types & categories
- attain hypernym
Related & opposite
- climax derivation
- culmination derivation
Sense 4 verb
reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body
Types & categories
- reach hypernym
Related & opposite
- culmination derivation
Sense 5 verb
rise to, or form, a summit
The helmet culminated in a crest
Types & categories
- form hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | windup |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | climax |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | climax |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | culmination |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | end |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | crown |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | culmination |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | terminate |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | climax |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | culmination |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | attain |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | culmination |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | reach |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | form |