peak

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The pointed top of a mountain.

   The view from the peak was magnificent.

2. 2
   noun

   The highest point or level that something reaches.

   The stock market reached a peak in September 1929.

Common collocations

• peak hours Adjective + noun

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.

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