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Definition of High point
1. Noun. The most enjoyable part of a given experience. "The trumpet solo was the high point of the concert"
Definition of High point
1. Noun. A climax; the best time in a given period ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of High Point
Literary usage of High point
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"... all of Greensboro, and JM Hedgecock, of high point, for appellee. HOKE, J.
[1] We find no error In the record affecting the determination of the Issues, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... which aims to maintain the body temperature at a high point, not especially
by excessive heat production, 'but by controlling the dissipation of heat. ..."
3. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"Kesla stands, 7 miles due west of Jerusalem, on a high point on the north slope
of the lofty ridge between Wady ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1855)
"Europe, that has carried the development of commerce and manufactures to such a
high point, and has based them on the principle of the liberty of the seas, ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"One may assume that where the high point occurs at the sixty-five or seventy-five-minute
period, gastric symptoms are infrequent, provided the high point ..."
6. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"... the women of the better classes of England, irrespective of their affiliations,
mark a high point of progress in the sex toward the goal of independence ..."
7. The Correspondence of Jonathan Worth by Jonathan Worth (1909)
"... if they come this way will be here in a day or two—we are not advised as to
the number. I send this to high point to-day. From JM Worth. ..."
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