CULMINATION

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A concluding action

Synonyms:

closing; completion; culmination; mop up; windup

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("culmination" is a kind of...):

conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "culmination"):

consummation (the act of bringing to completion or fruition)

consummation (the completion of marriage by sexual intercourse)

finish; finishing (the act of finishing)

finalisation; finalization (the act of finalizing)

follow-through (carrying some project or intention to full completion)

follow-through (the act of carrying a stroke to its natural completion)

graduation (the successful completion of a program of study)

Derivation:

culminate (end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The decisive moment in a novel or play

Example:

the deathbed scene is the climax of the play

Synonyms:

climax; culmination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("culmination" is a kind of...):

instant; minute; moment; second (a particular point in time)

Holonyms ("culmination" is a part of...):

story (a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events)

Derivation:

culminate (end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage)

culminate (reach the highest or most decisive point)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("culmination" is a kind of...):

celestial point (a point in the heavens (on the celestial sphere))

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)

Derivation:

culminate (reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A final climactic stage

Example:

their achievements stand as a culmination of centuries of development

Synonyms:

apogee; culmination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("culmination" is a kind of...):

phase; stage (any distinct time period in a sequence of events)

Derivation:

culminate (bring to a head or to the highest point)

culminate (end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage)

culminate (reach the highest or most decisive point)

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Context examples:

The full moon lunar eclipse of January 10 will highlight your love life and bring a matter to culmination.