Definitions for culminate

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culminate cul·mi·nate

Spelling: [kuhl-muh-neyt]

IPA: /ˈkʌl məˌneɪt/

Culminate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 639 anagrams from letters in culminate (aceilmntu).

Definitions for culminate

verb (used with object)

1. to bring to a close; complete; climax:

verb (used without object)

1. to reach the highest point, summit, or highest development (usually followed by in).
2. to end or arrive at a final stage (usually followed by in):
3. to rise to or form an apex; terminate (usually followed by in):
4. Astronomy. (of a celestial body) to be on the meridian, or reach the highest or the lowest altitude.

Origin of culminate

1640-50; Late Latin culminātus (past participle of culmināre to come to a peak), equivalent to Latin culmin- (stem of culmen) peak, top + -ātus

Examples for culminate

In them the antichristian might of the beast will culminate.

This will all culminate in a mini-series event called The Defenders.

Moreover, the interest does not accumulate and culminate at the end.

There is no promise that the players will break into song to culminate the show ... but one can hope!

And all science must culminate at last in the science of healing—not the weak, but the strong.

What was more natural than that their friendship should culminate in a deeper feeling!

The overseas portion of the tour is slated to begin this month in the Netherlands and will culminate in mid-December in Belgium.

This is my punishment: the passion in all of us that must culminate in her final cry.

It was Bassano who started that great Spanish school which was to culminate in Velasquez.

All that terrible day seemed to culminate in this overwhelming misfortune.