culmination.

The point at which a developing process reaches its fullest expression or completion.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• culmination of years of work
• mark the culmination

On the page

The exhibition marked the culmination of a decade of research.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Singular culmination; plural culminations. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, description. Commonness: moderately common.