acme

See also: ACME and acmé

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀκμή (akmē, “point, top”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈækmi/

Noun

acme (plural acmes)

1. The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Alexander Pope

     The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry.

   • (Can we date this quote?), I. Taylor

     The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy.

2. (medicine) The crisis or height of a disease.
3. Mature age; full bloom of life.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:apex

Translations

the highest point

• Bulgarian: връхна точка (vrǎhna točka)
• Dutch: hoogtepunt (nl) n
• Greek: απόγειο (el) n (apógeio)

• Icelandic: hápunktur (is) m
• Spanish: colmo (es) m, apogeo m, cúspide (es) f
• Swedish: höjdpunkt (sv), kulmen (sv)

full bloom

• Bulgarian: разцвет (bg) (razcvet)

• Swedish: kulm

External links

• acme at OneLook Dictionary Search
• acme in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• came, ECMA, eMac, EMAC, mace, Mace