mountaintop
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of mountaintop
Example Sentences
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If your biggest fear going into retirement was that your money would run out before the end of your life, congratulations for making it to the mountaintop.
From MarketWatch • Jul. 8, 2026
Discussions were held at the luxury mountaintop resort of Bürgenstock.
From BBC • Jun. 23, 2026
Each day thousands of visitors pile into the area to hike through pristine jungle to white-sand beaches or to Colombia's mountaintop Lost City, which predates Peru's Machu Picchu.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
But like a sage on the basketball mountaintop, Wooden wouldn’t give a direct answer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
It has the air of a world’s fair bizarrely transferred to a mountaintop.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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