Acme Definition

ăkmē
noun
The highest point, as of achievement or development.
Reached the acme of her career.
American Heritage
The highest point; point of culmination; peak.
Webster's New World

The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination.

Wiktionary

(medicine) The crisis or height of a disease.

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Mature age; full bloom of life.
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pronoun
(fiction) A generic large company or corporation.
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Other Word Forms of Acme

Noun

Singular:
acme
Plural:
acmes

Origin of Acme

  • Greek akmē ak- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek ἀκμή (akmē, “point, top”).

    From Wiktionary

Acme Sentence Examples

  • The succeeding century Brought the Empire to the acme of its power, until Henry III.

  • The whole universe, however, was incomplete, and did not receive its finishing stroke till man was formed, who is the acme of the creation and the microcosm.

  • The quarrel with the margraves, however, did not interfere with the growth of the town's prosperity, which reached its acme in the 16th century.

  • It first became a flourishing place under the Normans and during the crusades, but attained the acme of its prosperity as a seat of trade with the East under the Angevin princes.

  • Just as "Uncle's" pickled mushrooms, honey, and cherry brandy had seemed to her the best in the world, so also that song, at that moment, seemed to her the acme of musical delight.

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Words Starting With

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Words Ending With

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