mountaintop

[moun-tn-top]

noun

1. the top tops or summit of a mountain.

adjective

1. situated at the top tops or summit of a mountain.

   a mountaintop house.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mountaintop¹

First recorded in 1585–95; mountain + top ¹

Example Sentences

The unfortunate truth is that throughout his career as basketball’s ultimate passer, he never quite found a team to get him to the NBA’s mountaintop.

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This ability helps them survive almost anywhere: on mountaintops, in Antarctica and even in the moss growing in the cracks of your sidewalk.

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It was as if you could buy flood insurance on the house in the valley for the same price as flood insurance on the house on the mountaintop.

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Because when a bunch of geniuses are stuck together on a remote mountaintop for a few years, they’re going to toss around ideas.

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Grinding across the mountaintop, stirring up those clouds of dust, was the mining robot.

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