adj
Meaning 1
At the greatest extent; maximum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- peak oil, Peak TV
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
peak
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pēk
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/piːk/
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rhymes with -iːk
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homophone: peek
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homophone: peke
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homophone: pique
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adj
Meaning 2
Maximal, quintessential, archetypical, strictly with positive connotations; representing the culmination of its type.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Examples
- Knowing obscure 19th-century slang is peak nerd.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Bad.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Multicultural-London-English, dated
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: abysmal, atrocious, awful, bad, chronic, coarse, corny, crap, crapalicious, crappy, crummy, deityforsaken, dire, disagreeable, dismal, dogshit, dreadful, fifth-rate, foul, fourth-rate, godawful, hellish, hideous, hopeless, horrendous, horrid, horrible, horrific, inadequate, incompetent, inelegant, intolerable, inferior, lackluster, loathsome, lousy, miserable, naff, negative, odious, ordinary, pathetic, peak, piss-poor, rotten, rubbish, shitawful, shitty, sixth-rate, sloppy, subpar, terrible, unfavorable, wack
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Unlucky; unfortunate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Multicultural-London-English, dated
Examples
- You didn't get a spot? That's peak.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: down on one's luck, fortuneless, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-starred, inauspicious, infelicitous, infortunate, hapless, luckless, misadventurous, mischanceful, misfortuned, peak, snakebit, thwart, unchancy, unfavourable, unfortunate, unhappy, unpropitious, unlucky, wanchancy
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 5
Very good or high-quality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
Examples
- That movie last night was so peak.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 6
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Meaning 7
A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The stock market reached a peak in September 1929.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: apex, pinnacle, acme, zenith, apogee, apotheosis, ascendance, capstone, climax, coronation, crown, culmination, extreme, fastigium, high note, high point, high tide, high-water mark, midday, Mount Everest, outblossom, paroxysm, perihelion, summa, summit
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geography, natural-sciences
Examples
- They reached the peak after 8 hours of climbing.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: summit, top
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 10
The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geography, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 11
visor (horizontal part of a cap sticking out in front and shading the wearer's eyes)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
Topics: business, clothing, fashion, lifestyle, manufacturing, textiles
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 12
The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
Examples
- peak-halyards
- peak-brails
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 13
The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 14
The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 15
A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 16
Something of exceptional quality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, uncountable
Examples
- There's so much peak on this website!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 17
Alternative form of peag (“wampum”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 18
To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: nautical, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 19
To exceed the maximum signal amplitude of (a piece of equipment), resulting in clipping of the signal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, signal-processing
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 20
To reach a highest degree or maximum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- Historians argue about when the Roman Empire began to peak and ultimately decay.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 21
To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 22
To reach the highest level of success or greatness in one's lifetime.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 23
To reach the point of strongest effect from a drug.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 24
Ellipsis of peak trans.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Qualifier: gender-critical slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 25
To become sick or wan.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 26
To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 27
To pry; to peep slyly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 28
Misspelling of pique.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, misspelling
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 29
a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bill, eyeshade, visor, vizor
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: brim
noun
Meaning 30
the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the view from the peak was magnificent
- they clambered to the tip of Monadnock
- the region is a few molecules wide at the summit
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: crown, crest, top, tip, summit
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: topographic point, place, spot
Narrower terms: hilltop, brow, pinnacle, mountain peak
noun
Meaning 31
the highest point (of something)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- at the peak of the pyramid
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: vertex, apex, acme
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: extreme point, extreme, extremum
Narrower terms: crown, roof peak
noun
Meaning 32
the most extreme possible amount or value
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- voltage peak
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: extremum
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: limit, limitation
Narrower terms: minimum, lower limit, maximum, upper limit
noun
Meaning 33
a V shape
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: point, tip
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: convex shape, convexity
Narrower terms: widow's peak, cusp, head
noun
Meaning 34
the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: acme, height, elevation, pinnacle, summit, superlative, meridian, tiptop, top
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: degree, level, stage, point
noun
Meaning 35
the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: flower, prime, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: time period, period of time, period
Narrower terms: golden age
verb
Meaning 36
to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929
- Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: top out
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain
Narrower terms: crest
History
Etymology
From earlier peake, peek, peke, from Middle English pek (in place names), itself an alteration of pike, pyke, pyk (“a sharp point, pike”), from Old English pīc, piic (“a pike, needle, pin, peak, pinnacle”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīk, from Proto-Germanic *pīkaz (“peak”). Cognate with Dutch piek (“pike, point, summit, peak”), Danish pik (“pike, peak”), Swedish pik (“pike, lance, point, peak”), Norwegian pik (“peak, summit”). More at pike.
* As an English surname, from several placenames in England derived from the noun peak or its source. * Also as an English surname, shortened from Peacock. * As an Irish surname, shortened from McPeak.
Unknown. Perhaps related to Etymology 1 above in the sense of "becoming pointed" through emaciation.
Across languages
Translations
212 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: majë — point, sharp end
- Aromanian: ciumã — point, sharp end
- Asturian: picu — point, sharp end
- Asturian: punta — point, sharp end
- Asturian: cantu — point, sharp end
- Bulgarian: остър връх (ostǎr vrǎh) — point, sharp end
- Bulgarian: пик (pik) — point, sharp end
- Catalan: punta — point, sharp end
- Catalan: visera — point, sharp end
- Cherokee: ᎤᏍᎪᎵ (usgoli) — point, sharp end
- Czech: špička — point, sharp end
- Esperanto: akraĵo — point, sharp end
- Esperanto: kresto — point, sharp end
- Finnish: kärki — point, sharp end
- Finnish: lippa — point, sharp end
- French: pic — point, sharp end
- Galician: bico — point, sharp end
- Galician: pico — point, sharp end
- Georgian: წვერო (c̣vero) — point, sharp end
- Hebrew: קָדְקוֹד (qodqód) — point, sharp end
- Hungarian: csúcs — point, sharp end
- Irish: stuaic — point, sharp end
- Japanese: 頂点 (chōten) — point, sharp end
- Japanese: 尖頭 (sentō) — point, sharp end
- Korean: 정점 (jeongjeom) — point, sharp end
- Latin: cacūmen — point, sharp end
- Macedonian: врв (vrv) — point, sharp end
- Occitan: pic — point, sharp end
- Plautdietsch: Spetz — point, sharp end
- Portuguese: ponta — point, sharp end
- Romanian: vârf — point, sharp end
- Russian: ко́нчик (kónčik) — point, sharp end
- Russian: остриё (ostrijó) — point, sharp end
- Sicilian: pizzu — point, sharp end
- Sicilian: punta — point, sharp end
- Sicilian: spicu — point, sharp end
- Spanish: punta — point, sharp end
- Walloon: dibout — point, sharp end
- Walloon: ponte — point, sharp end
- Walloon: coron — point, sharp end
- Aromanian: ciumã — highest value reached
- Asturian: tope — highest value reached
- Asturian: picu — highest value reached
- Bulgarian: максимум (maksimum) — highest value reached
- Catalan: pic — highest value reached
- Czech: vrchol — highest value reached
- Czech: maximum — highest value reached
- Esperanto: supro — highest value reached
- Finnish: huippu — highest value reached
- French: pic — highest value reached
- French: sommet — highest value reached
- German: Höchststand — highest value reached
- Hebrew: שִׂיא (si) — highest value reached
- Hindi: सर्वोच्च (sarvocc) — highest value reached
- Italian: picco — highest value reached
- Kazakh: шың (şyñ) — highest value reached
- Malay: kemuncak — highest value reached
- Malayalam: ഉച്ചി (ucci) — highest value reached
- Persian: اوج (owj) — highest value reached
- Portuguese: cume — highest value reached
- Portuguese: pico — highest value reached
- Romanian: culme — highest value reached
- Romanian: vârf — highest value reached
- Russian: пик (pik) — highest value reached
- Sicilian: pizzu — highest value reached
- Sicilian: punta — highest value reached
- Spanish: pico — highest value reached
- Spanish: plenitud — highest value reached
- Turkish: zirve — highest value reached
- Walloon: copete — highest value reached
- Walloon: miercopete — highest value reached
- Albanian: maja — mountain top
- Arabic: قِمَّة (qimma) — mountain top
- Armenian: գագաթ (gagatʻ) — mountain top
- Aromanian: cãrciliu — mountain top
- Aromanian: creashtit — mountain top
- Aromanian: ciumã — mountain top
- Aromanian: culmã — mountain top
- Aromanian: angheauã — mountain top
- Asturian: cumal — mountain top
- Asturian: cume — mountain top
- Asturian: altu — mountain top
- Asturian: picu — mountain top
- Asturian: tesu — mountain top
- Bhojpuri: चोटी (cōṭī) — mountain top
- Bulgarian: връх (vrǎh) — mountain top
- Bulgarian: чукар (čukar) — mountain top
- Catalan: cim — mountain top
- Catalan: pic — mountain top
- Chinese Mandarin: 尖峰 (jiānfēng) — mountain top
- Chinese Mandarin: 頂峰 /顶峰 (dǐngfēng) — mountain top
- Czech: vrchol — mountain top
- Czech: vrcholek — mountain top
- Dalmatian: čama — mountain top
- Dutch: piek — mountain top
- Esperanto: pinto — mountain top
- Esperanto: montopinto — mountain top
- Finnish: huippu — mountain top
- French: cime — mountain top
- French: sommet — mountain top
- French: pic — mountain top
- Galician: coto — mountain top
- Galician: outeiro — mountain top
- Galician: pico — mountain top
- Galician: bico — mountain top
- Galician: cume — mountain top
- Georgian: მწვერვალი (mc̣vervali) — mountain top
- Georgian: პიკი (ṗiḳi) — mountain top
- German: Gipfel — mountain top
- Greek: κορυφή (koryfí) — mountain top
- Ancient Greek: ῥίον (rhíon) — mountain top
- Ancient Greek: ἄκρον (ákron) — mountain top
- Gujarati: શિખર (śikhar) — mountain top
- Hebrew: פִּסְגָּה (pisgá) — mountain top
- Hindi: चोटी (coṭī) — mountain top
- Hindi: शिखर (śikhar) — mountain top
- Hungarian: csúcs — mountain top
- Hungarian: hegycsúcs — mountain top
- Hungarian: orom — mountain top
- Ingrian: kukkula — mountain top
- Istriot: seîma — mountain top
- Italian: cima — mountain top
- Japanese: 頂上 (chōjō) — mountain top
- Japanese: 山頂 (sanchō) — mountain top
- Kazakh: шың (şyñ) — mountain top
- Korean: 산꼭대기 (sankkokdaegi) — mountain top
- Korean: 봉우리 (bong'uri) — mountain top
- Central Kurdish: لووتکە (lûtke) — mountain top
- Central Kurdish: دوند (dund) — mountain top
- Central Kurdish: ترۆپک (tropk) — mountain top
- Northern Kurdish: gupik — mountain top
- Northern Kurdish: lûtke — mountain top
- Southern Kurdish: لۊتگە (lütge) — mountain top
- Latin: culmen — mountain top
- Latin: columen — mountain top
- Latvian: virsotne — mountain top
- Macedonian: врв (vrv) — mountain top
- Malay: puncak — mountain top
- Malayalam: കൊടുമുടി (koṭumuṭi) — mountain top
- Māori: tautara — mountain top
- Māori: keo — mountain top
- Māori: keokeonga — mountain top
- Māori: keho — mountain top
- Māori: tara — mountain top
- Persian: چکاد (čekâd) — mountain top
- Persian: قله (qolle) — mountain top
- Polish: szczyt — mountain top
- Polish: wierzchołek — mountain top
- Polish: wierch — mountain top
- Portuguese: pico — mountain top
- Portuguese: cume — mountain top
- Portuguese: topo — mountain top
- Quechua: pikchu — mountain top
- Romanian: culme — mountain top
- Romanian: vârf — mountain top
- Russian: верши́на (veršína) — mountain top
- Russian: пик (pik) — mountain top
- Scottish Gaelic: mullach — mountain top
- Serbo-Croatian: vrh — mountain top
- Sicilian: pizzu — mountain top
- Lower Sorbian: wjerch — mountain top
- Spanish: cima — mountain top
- Spanish: cumbre — mountain top
- Swedish: topp — mountain top
- Swedish: spets — mountain top
- Tocharian B: mrāce — mountain top
- Turkish: doruk — mountain top
- Turkish: tepe — mountain top
- Turkish: zirve — mountain top
- Ottoman Turkish: قله (kulle) — mountain top
- Urdu: چوٹی (coṭī) — mountain top
- Urdu: شکھر — mountain top
- Venetan: sima — mountain top
- Vietnamese: đỉnh — mountain top
- Walloon: copete — mountain top
- Walloon: miercopete — mountain top
- Walloon: dizeu — mountain top
- Zazaki: sersıq — mountain top
- Scottish Gaelic: mullach — upper-after corner of sail
- Finnish: keulapiikki — narrow part of bow
- Finnish: kynsi — tip of anchor fluke
- Catalan: pic — point where a function attains a maximum
- Czech: maximum — point where a function attains a maximum
- Dutch: maximum — point where a function attains a maximum
- Finnish: maksimipiste — point where a function attains a maximum
- German: Maximum — point where a function attains a maximum
- Japanese: 最大値 (saidaichi) — point where a function attains a maximum
- Japanese: 尖頭値 (sentōchi) — point where a function attains a maximum
- Japanese: ピーク (pīku) — point where a function attains a maximum
- Macedonian: врв (vrv) — point where a function attains a maximum
- Romanian: maxim — point where a function attains a maximum
- Russian: пик (pik) — point where a function attains a maximum
- Russian: ма́ксимум (máksimum) — point where a function attains a maximum
- Sicilian: màssimu — point where a function attains a maximum
- Swedish: topp — point where a function attains a maximum
- Czech: vrcholit — to reach a peak
- Czech: kulminovat — to reach a peak
- Finnish: saavuttaa huippunsa — to reach a peak
- Finnish: olla korkeimmillaan — to reach a peak
- German: kulminieren — to reach a peak
- German: gipfeln — to reach a peak
- Greek: κορυφώνομαι (koryfónomai) — to reach a peak
- Hungarian: tetőzik — to reach a peak
- Hungarian: kulminál — to reach a peak
- Malay: puncak — to reach a peak
- Romanian: culmina — to reach a peak
- Serbo-Croatian: kulminirati — to reach a peak
- Spanish: culminar — to reach a peak
- Zazaki: pik resen — to reach a peak
- Zazaki: ser resen — to reach a peak
- Finnish: nousta huipulle — to rise or extend into a peak, to form or appear as a peak
- Finnish: olla huippu — to rise or extend into a peak, to form or appear as a peak