topmost

Speech parts

1. topmost - Adjective

2. topmost - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Highest; uppermost; as, the topmost cliff; the topmost branch of a tree.

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Phrases with the word

Examples

There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people. John Henry Newman

So wrote Pater, calling an art-for-art's sake muezzin to the faithful from the topmost turret of the ivory tower. Cyril Connolly

The topmost devotee sees everything in Krishna, and Krishna in everything. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

On young love* "Here is a fulfillment of long centuries of civilization and culture; here, in romantic love, more than the triumph of thought or the victories of power is the topmost reach of human beings." Will Durant

Like the sweet apple reddening on the topmost branch, the topmost apple on the tip of the branch, and the pickers forgot it, well, no, they didn't forget, they just couldn't reach it. Sappho

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