Level C1/C2 (Advanced)
The French Word of the Day is the advanced masculine noun “l’apogée“, meaning peak or culmination.
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Meaning
L’apogée (m.) means height, peak, zenith, or culmination of something. It refers to the highest point of achievement, development, or power.
Pronunciation
Example sentences
Claude travaille dans la même entreprise depuis vingt ans et est à l’apogée de sa carrière.
Claude has been working in the same company for twenty years and is at the peak of his career.
This sentence uses the feminine noun puissance, which means “power” as in the power of a government or engine. Puissance is related to the verb pouvoir (can, to be able).
Cette peinture symbolise la puissance de l’empire à son apogée.
This painting symbolizes the power of the empire at its peak.
Word origin
Apogée comes from apogeus in Latin, which in turn comes from ἀπόγειος (apogeios) in Greek, meaning “far from the earth”.
Related words
- Le sommet the summit, the top
- Le zénith the zenith
- Le faîte the top, the pinnacle
- Le point culminant the culminating point, the high point
- Le point d’orgue the climax, the highlight
- Culminer to culminate, to peak
