copestone

A noun with two meanings: it can refer to a stone that forms the top of a wall or building, or figuratively, a final touch or crowning achievement that represents a culmination.

• 🇵🇹Substantivo com dois sentidos: pode designar a pedra que coroa o topo de uma parede ou construção, ou, em sentido figurado, o toque final ou o coroamento de uma realização, representando seu ponto culminante.

1. Crowning achievement C2 formal

   A final, finishing touch or the highest point of an achievement; a culmination.

   • Winning the Nobel Prize was the copestone of her scientific career.
   • The final chapter of the book serves as a copestone to his life's work.
   • The treaty was the copestone of years of diplomatic negotiations.

   🇵🇹Ápice da realização

   Sinônimos: acmeapexcapstoneclimaxcrowningculminationpeakpinnaclesummitzenith

2. Architectural stone C2 formal

   A stone that forms the top of a wall, building, or structure.

   • The mason carefully placed the copestone on the garden wall.
   • The ancient temple's copestone was carved with intricate symbols.
   • A copestone was added to the monument to complete its construction.

   🇵🇹Pedra de coroamento

   Sinônimos: capstonecopingcoping stone

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• copestone's possessive singular form