summit UK /ˈsʌmɪt/US /ˈsʌmət/noun 9verb 3forms 5 noun9 •The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak. •An assembly or gathering of the leaders of countries to discuss issues of international significance; also (loosely), an important or high-level gathering or meeting.They met for an international summit on environmental issues. •The highest point of a hill, mountain, or similar geographical feature.In summer, it is possible to hike to the summit of Mount Shasta. •A vertex of a polygon or polyhedron. •(figurative) The highest point of achievement, development, etc., that can be reached; the acme, the pinnacle.Learning from others as from himself, he reached the summit of his development with his latest work. — 1924 •The highest point of a canal, railway, road, etc. •(no longer used, rare) One of the two vertices of a crystal with a rhombohedral shape where the angles of each face are equal; also, the highest point of a crystal with a pyramidal or tetrahedral shape. •(figurative, no longer used) The highest level of political leadership. •(no longer used) Synonym of anther (“the pollen-bearing part of the stamen of a flower”) or (rare) stigma (“the sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination”). verb3 •(informal) To reach the summit of (a mountain).Of the range's 12 peaks, Mount Saskatchewan is the only one that has yet to be summited. — 2012 •(informal) To reach the summit of a mountain. •To attend a summit.[…] what the North Vietnamese would do while Richard Nixon was summiting in Moscow. […] — 1972 formssummited · summitted · summiting · summitting · summits