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summiting

summiting is the present participle and gerund of summit.

Meaning of summit

Verb

summit (third-person singular simple present summits, present participle summiting or summitting, simple past and past participle summited or summitted)

  1. (informal, transitive) To reach the summit (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.1) of (a mountain).
    • Of the range's 12 peaks, Mount Saskatchewan is the only one that has yet to be summited.2012 July–August, Kenza Moller, “Eyes on the North”, in Canadian Geographic, volume 132, number 4, Ottawa: Royal Canadian Geographical Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10
  2. (informal, intransitive) To reach the summit of a mountain.
  3. (intransitive) To attend a summit (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.2.2).
    • If the Soviet leaders could go on summiting with the US while bombs poured on North Vietnam and yet claim that they had nothing but the best interests of the Vietnamese revolution in mind, there seems precious little reason to cry wolf at Peking-Bonn relations.1969, Economic and Political Weekly, volume 4, numbers 14-26, page 645

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Noun

summiting (plural summitings)

  1. The act of summiting.

Forms of summiting

Verb
alternative formsummitting
Noun
pluralsummitings

Questions about summiting

What does summiting mean?
Summiting means the act of summiting.
What is summiting the present participle and gerund of?
Summiting is the present participle and gerund of summit.
What part of speech is summiting?
Summiting is a noun.
What is the plural of summiting?
The plural of summiting is summitings.

Words near summiting in the dictionary

  1. summiteer
  2. summiteers
  3. summiter
  4. summiters
  5. summities
  6. summiting
  7. summitings
  8. summitless
  9. summitries
  10. summitry
  11. summits

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