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Plural of pinnacle

regular plural

The plural of pinnacle is pinnacles.

Forms of pinnacle

Singularpinnacle /ˈpɪnəkəl/
Pluralpinnacles
Countablecountable

Pinnacles in a sentence

  • Kings, who remain in many respects the representatives of a vanished world, solitary pinnacles that topple over the rising waste of waters under which the past lies buried.1900, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 55
  • In the city’s midst the gleaming marble of a thousand steps climbed to the citadel where arose four pinnacles beckoning to heaven, and midmost between the pinnacles there stood the dome, vast, as the gods had dreamed it.1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 1
  • In the background were impossible castles and castlettes, precariously perched on isolated pinnacles of rock, which broke out here and there with unlikely trees.1922, Charles Matlack Price, Poster design. From the entry castlette
  • And with domes and pinnacles the dreams arose and stood up proudly between the river and the sky, all shimmering white to the morning.1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 1. From the entry proudly
  • Potentilla and Ivory Daphne sat humpily about on the unfolded lawns, and ahead, there towered out enormous cliffs and fantastic pinnacles of what looked like Dolomite.1921, Reginald Farrer, chapter 10, in The Rainbow Bridge, London: E. Arnold & Co., page 181. From the entry tower

Meaning of pinnacle

  1. noun The highest point.
  2. noun A tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain.
  3. noun An all-time high; a point of greatest achievement or success.

Full definition of pinnacle

Questions about the plural of pinnacle

What is the plural of pinnacle?
The plural of pinnacle is pinnacles.
Is pinnacle countable?
Pinnacle is a countable noun.

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