LekhoriLekhoriThe highest point in the sky reached by a celestial body.
[…] in the middle of the day, when the sun was in the zenith, the violence of the heat was too great to stir out […]
Highest point or state; peak.
Winning the continental championship was the zenith of my career.
From Middle English cenyth, from Medieval Latin cenit, from Arabic سَمْت (samt, “direction, path”), from the fuller form سَمْت اَلرَّأْس (samt ar-raʔs, “direction of the head”). The -ni- for -m- is so...
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