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A village in the Rural Municipality of Lone Tree No. 18, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and mining location in Lake County, Colorado.
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A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Decatur County, Georgia.
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A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Greenwood County, Kansas.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Rockcastle County, Kentucky.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A village and township in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
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A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Polk County, Minnesota.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A hamlet in Greene County, New York.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Guilford County and Randolph County, North Carolina.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Morrow County, Ohio.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Oregon.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Collin County, Texas.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
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noun
A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
An instance of such an ascending series.
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Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, narratology, sciences
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Synonyms: payoff
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noun
A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series, particularly
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Usage: countable, often, uncountable
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noun
A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series
The final term of a rhetorical climax.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, often, rhetoric, uncountable
Qualifier: imprecise
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noun
A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series
The culmination of ecological development, whereby species are in equilibrium with their environment.
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Usage: countable, often, uncountable
Topics: biology, ecology, natural-sciences
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noun
A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series
The culmination of sexual pleasure, an orgasm.
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Usage: countable, euphemistic, often, uncountable
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verb
To reach or bring to a climax (in any sense).
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Usage: ambitransitive
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verb
To form the climax to; to be the climax of.
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Usage: transitive
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noun
the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: orgasm, sexual climax, coming
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Broader terms: consummation
Narrower terms: male orgasm
noun
the decisive moment in a novel or play
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: culmination
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Broader terms: moment, minute, second, instant
noun
arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
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noun
the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: flood tide
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Broader terms: juncture, occasion
noun
the most severe stage of a disease
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Broader terms: degree, level, stage, point
verb
end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: culminate
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Broader terms: end, stop, finish, terminate, cease
Narrower terms: crown, top
History
From Latin clīmax, from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder, staircase, [rhetorical] climax”), from κλίνω (klínō, “to lean, slant”).
Across languages
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