peak – English noun declension

English noun forms of peak

Noun: peak
Singularpeak
Pluralpeaks

Sample Sentences

  • A less risky method is to lift your whisk or beater to check the condition of the peaks of the egg whites; the foam should be just stiff enough to stand up in well-defined, unwavering peaks. [2002, Joy of Cooking: All About Cookies, →ISBN, page 29:]
  • The stock market reached a peak in September 1929.
  • By last year, family income was 8 percent lower than it had been 11 years earlier, at its peak in 2000, according to inflation-adjusted numbers from the Census Bureau. [2012 October 23, David Leonhardt, New York Times, retrieved 24 Oct 2012:]
  • They reached the peak after 8 hours of climbing.
  • To the South we observed a large plain some ten miles wide, with snowy peaks rising on the farther side. In front was a hill projecting into the plain, on which stood a mani wall; and this latter discovery made me feel quite confident that I was on the high road to Lhassa. [1898, Arnold Henry Savage Landor, chapter 62, in In the Forbidden Land:]
  • peak-halyards
  • peak-brails
  • As she came to her peak, he was with her all the way, making her crash, moan, say his name again and again. [2013 April 23, Crystal Green, Made in Texas!, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 214:]
  • There's so much peak on this website!

Etymology

1. From earlier peake, peek, peke, from Middle English pek (in place names), itself an alteration of pike, pyke, pyk (“a sharp point, pike”), from Old English pīc, piic (“a pike, needle, pin, peak, pinnacle”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīk, from Proto-Germanic *pīkaz (“peak”).
2. Cognate with Dutch piek (“pike, point, summit, peak”), Danish pik (“pike, peak”), Swedish pik (“pike, lance, point, peak”), Norwegian pik (“peak, summit”). More at pike. See: Middle English Nouns 'pek', Old English Nouns 'pīc', Dutch Nouns 'piek', Danish Nouns 'pik', Swedish Nouns 'pik'.

Verbs referencing "peak"

German Nouns Peak.