acme

[ ak-mee ]

/ ˈæk mi /

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noun

the highest point; summit; peak: The empire was at the acme of its power.

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Origin of acme

First recorded in 1560–70, from Greek akmḗ “point, highest point, extremity”

OTHER WORDS FROM acme

ac·mic

[ak-mik], /ˈæk mɪk/, ac·mat·ic

[ak-mat-ik], /ækˈmæt ɪk/, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH acme

acme , acne

Words nearby acme

aclinic line, closed book, a, A.C.L.S., ACLU, ACM, acme, acmeism, acme screw thread, acmesthesia, acmite, acne

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How to use acme in a sentence

Chess may seem like the acme of human thought, but it’s not.
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The team behind Indochine and Acme is also opening Tijuana Picnic in the LES sometime this month.
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He is the acme of political correctness (notwithstanding the odd drone directed at “AfPak”).
Mr. Politically Correct Obama, Meet Your Opposite, India’s Mr. Modi|Tunku Varadarajan|May 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I did comedy sketches of her at ACME, but she was known as ‘The Other Mrs. Gabor’ then.
‘Family Guy’ Star Alex Borstein Is Ready for Her HBO Close-Up|Marlow Stern|November 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST

But Sanjay seems today like an adumbration, rather than the acme, of authoritarian possibilities in India.
Hold Onto Your Penis|David Frum, Justin Green|November 29, 2012|DAILY BEAST
ACME has a mousetrap division that is not performing very well.
Capital Gains: Answering Krugman and Bernstein|David Frum|January 23, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Dr. Coleridge "considered it to be a contagious nervous disease, the acme or intensest form of which is catalepsy."
Second Edition of A Discovery Concerning Ghosts|George Cruikshank
There is in art an acme of perfection, as there10 is in Nature one of goodness and completeness.
The 'Characters' of Jean de La Bruyre|Jean de La Bruyre
For, there lay the acme of his cleverness; in the extraction of money from the unlucky people who came to demand it.
The Nabob|Alphonse Daudet
Ball had been to school before, and of this school he often bragged as the acme of desirability and wickedness.
Eric, or Little by Little|Frederic W. Farrar
But the point, the acme of my distresses, consisted in the awful uncertainty of our final fate.
Fox's Book of Martyrs|John Foxe

British Dictionary definitions for acme

acme

/ (ˈækmɪ) /

noun

the culminating point, as of achievement or excellence; summit; peak

Word Origin for acme

C16: from Greek akmē

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