Associations to the word «Acme»
Noun
Wiktionary
ACME, noun. The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination.
ACME, noun. (medicine) The crisis or height of a disease.
ACME, noun. Mature age; full bloom of life.
ACME, proper noun. (fiction) A generic large company or corporation.
ACME, proper noun. A village in Alberta, Canada.
ACME, proper noun. A ghost town in Oklahoma.
ACME, proper noun. A ghost town in Texas.
ACME, proper noun. A CDP in Washington.
Dictionary definition
ACME, noun. The highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development; "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer was at its peak"; "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame"; "the summit of his ambition"; "so many highest superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his profession".
ACME, noun. The highest point (of something); "at the peak of the pyramid".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.