noun
- The highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development.
- usage: "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer was at its peak"; "... Catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame"; "the summit of his ambition"; "so many highest superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his profession"
- A town in eastern Mississippi.
- An imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator.
- usage: "all points on the same meridian have the same longitude"
- synonyms: line of longitude
adjective
- Of or happening at noon.
- usage: "meridian hour"
- Being at the best stage of development."our manhood's prime vigor- Robert Browning
- synonyms: prime
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