A culmination is the highest point that a long process leads up to. The culmination of years of work, reach its culmination, a fitting culmination.
The word insists on the process: a culmination is only a culmination if something built up to it. The Latin behind it is the summit, and in astronomy a star culminates when it reaches its highest point in the sky.
1nounculminationThe highest point that a long process leads up to.
“The gold medal was the culmination of ten years of training.”
culmination is a peak.
Medieval Latin culminare comes from culmen, a summit or ridge.
Medieval Latin
culminatus
French
culmination
English, today
culmination
French culmination, from culminer, or from Medieval Latin culminatus + -tion. Morphologically culminate + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA