Pinnacle vs. Summit — What's the Difference?

A pinnacle is an architectural ornament originally forming the cap or crown of a buttress or small turret, but afterwards used on parapets at the corners of towers and in many other situations. The pinnacle looks like a small spire.

A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. The topographic terms acme, apex, peak (mountain peak), and zenith are synonymous.

The most successful point; the culmination

The highest point of a hill or mountain

A high, pointed piece of rock.

A meeting between heads of government

Form the culminating point or example of.

Reach the summit of (a mountain or hill)

Set on or as if on a pinnacle.

The highest point or part; the top.

(Architecture) A small turret or spire on a roof or buttress.

The highest level or degree that can be attained.

A tall pointed formation, such as a mountain peak.

The highest level, as of government officials.

The highest point; the culmination.

A conference or meeting of high-level leaders, usually called to shape a program of action.

To furnish with a pinnacle.

To climb to the summit of (a mountain).

To place on or as if on a pinnacle.

To climb to the summit.

The highest point.

(countable) A peak; the topmost point or surface, as of a mountain.

(geology) A tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain.

(countable) A gathering or assembly of leaders.

(figuratively) An all-time high; a point of greatest achievement or success.

To reach the summit of a mountain.

(architectural element) An upright member, generally ending in a small spire, used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire.

Something

(transitive) To place on a pinnacle.

The top; the highest point.

(transitive) To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.

The highest degree; the utmost elevation; the acme; as, the summit of human fame.

An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, - used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the like. Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc.

The most elevated part of a bivalve shell, or the part in which the hinge is situated.

Anything resembling a pinnacle; a lofty peak; a pointed summit.

The highest level or degree attainable;

To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.

The top point of a mountain or hill;

(architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress of tower

A meeting of heads of governments

The highest level or degree attainable;

Reach the summit of a mountain;

A lofty peak

Surmount with a pinnacle;

Raise on or as if on a pinnacle;