high point

See also: highpoint and High Point

English

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• highpoint

Noun

high point (plural high points)

1. A climax; the best time in a given period.

   Antonym: low point

   This has been the high point of my life.

2. (climbing) The point of the highest elevation in a given area.
   • 2008, Susan Joy Paul, Climbing Colorado's Mountains, Guilford, CT: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 141:

     Blanca Peak is one of just three ultra-prominence peaks, or “ultras,” in the state and the highpoint of the Sierra Blanca Range, a massif that includes ranked 14ers Ellingwood Point, Little Bear Peak, and Mount Lindsey.

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Translations

• Finnish: kohokohta (fi)
• German: Höhepunkt (de) m
• Maori: poutūmārōtanga