English Explanatory Dictionary

peak

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
  2. The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
  3. The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
  4. The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
  5. visor (horizontal part of a cap sticking out in front and shading the wearer's eyes)
  6. The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
  7. The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
  8. The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
  9. A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
  10. Something of exceptional quality.
verb
  1. To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
  2. To exceed the maximum signal amplitude of (a piece of equipment), resulting in clipping of the signal.
  3. To reach a highest degree or maximum.
  4. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
  5. To reach the highest level of success or greatness in one's lifetime.
  6. To reach the point of strongest effect from a drug.
  7. Ellipsis of peak trans.
adj
  1. At the greatest extent; maximum.
  2. Maximal, quintessential, archetypical, strictly with positive connotations; representing the culmination of its type.
  3. Bad.
  4. Unlucky; unfortunate.
  5. Very good or high-quality.
verb
  1. To become sick or wan.
  2. To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
  3. To pry; to peep slyly.
noun
  1. Alternative form of peag (“wampum”).
verb
  1. Misspelling of pique.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

pēk /piːk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-peak.wav

Word forms

peak peaks peaking peaked more peak most peak

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.

Synonyms

apex pinnacle acme zenith apogee apotheosis ascendance capstone climax coronation crown culmination Everest extreme fastigium high note high point high tide high-water mark midday outblossom paroxysm perihelion summa summit top culminate 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

Derived words

afterpeak Balfours Peak Beauty Peak Blackwell in the Peak Blanca Peak Bogong Peaks Wilderness Borah Peak Bragg peak Cloud Peak Collegiate Peaks crosspeak Darke Peak Electric Peak forepeak Gannett Peak ghost peak Grays Peak green-peak Hayden Peak Highland Peak High Peak hoddy peak hoddy-peak Humphreys Peak interpeak Luton peak Manypeaks Maroon Peak multipeak nonpeak off-peak peak bagging peak-bagging peak body Peak Crossing Peak Dale peak detector Peak District peaker peaker plant peak flow peak flow meter Peak Forest Peak Hill peak hour Peakhurst Peakhurst Heights peakish peakism peakist peakless peaklet peaklike peaknik peak of eternal light peak organisation peak season peak shaving peak torque peak vehicle requirement

Translations

Albanian: maja Arabic: قِمَّة Armenian: գագաթ Aromanian: cãrciliu Aromanian: creashtit Aromanian: ciumã Aromanian: culmã Aromanian: angheauã Bhojpuri: चोटी Bulgarian: връх Bulgarian: чукар Catalan: cim Catalan: pic Chinese Mandarin: 尖峰 Chinese Mandarin: 頂峰 /顶峰 Czech: vrchol Czech: vrcholek Dalmatian: čama Dutch: piek Esperanto: pinto Esperanto: montopinto Finnish: huippu French: cime French: sommet French: pic Galician: coto Galician: outeiro Galician: pico Galician: bico Galician: cume Georgian: მწვერვალი Georgian: პიკი German: Gipfel Greek: κορυφή Ancient Greek: ῥίον Ancient Greek: ἄκρον Gujarati: શિખર Hebrew: פִּסְגָּה Hindi: चोटी Hindi: शिखर Hungarian: csúcs Hungarian: hegycsúcs Hungarian: orom Ingrian: kukkula Istriot: seîma Italian: cima Japanese: 頂上 Japanese: 山頂 Kazakh: шың Korean: 산꼭대기 Korean: 봉우리 Central Kurdish: لووتکە Central Kurdish: دوند Central Kurdish: ترۆپک Northern Kurdish: gupik Northern Kurdish: lûtke Southern Kurdish: لۊتگە Latin: culmen Latin: columen Latvian: virsotne Macedonian: врв Malay: puncak Malayalam: കൊടുമുടി Māori: tautara Māori: keo Māori: keokeonga Māori: keho Māori: tara Persian: چکاد Persian: قله Polish: szczyt Polish: wierzchołek Polish: wierch
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