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zenith

UK/ˈzɛn.ɪθ/US/ˈzi.nɪθ/
nounC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,109 of 15,258leans written

The zenith is the highest point somebody or something reaches. At the zenith of his career.

In astronomy it is the point directly overhead rather than any general height. The opposite is the nadir, and both words came into English from Arabic.

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Definitions of zenith

  1. 1nounzenithThe highest point somebody or something reaches.C1

    “At the zenith of her career, she was the most famous actress in the country.”

zenith is a point.

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zenith in the wild

  • The zenith is the "highest" point on the celestial sphere.

    Zenith

  • The direction opposite of the zenith is the nadir.

    Zenith

  • Kabardock was built on the proposed site of the zenith.

    Le Zénith

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.