climax

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

cli·max [climax climaxes climaxed climaxing] noun, verb BrE [ˈklaɪmæks] NAmE [ˈklaɪmæks]
noun
1. the most exciting or important event or point in time
•to come to/reach a climax
•the climax of his political career
•The team's 3–1 victory in the final provided a fitting climax to a great season.
2. the most exciting part of a play, piece of music, etc. that usually happens near the end
•The book's powerful climax is the murder of Nancy by her lover Bill Sikes.
3. the highest point of sexual pleasure
Syn: ↑orgasm
compare ↑anticlimax

Word Origin:
mid 16th cent. (in rhetoric): from late Latin, from Greek klimax ‘ladder, climax’. The sense ‘culmination’ arose in the late 18th cent.

Example Bank:
•In a dramatic climax, our team lost by one goal.
•She found it hard to achieve a/reach climax.
•The affair was brought to a climax when the chairman resigned.
•The climax came at the end of the second act of the play.
•The crisis reached its climax in the 1970s.
•The hero dies at the climax of the opera.
•The story gradually builds to a powerful climax.
•Yesterday marked the climax of the celebrations.
•Signing the peace agreement was the climax of his political career.
•The story builds up to a powerful climax with the murder of Nancy by her lover Bill Sikes.
•The team's 3–1 victory in the final provided a fitting climax to a great season.

 
verb
1. intransitive, transitive to come to or form the best, most exciting, or most important point in sth
•~ with/in sth The festival will climax on Sunday with a gala concert.
•~ sth (especially NAmE)The sensational verdict climaxed a six-month trial.
2. intransitive to have an ↑orgasm
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
mid 16th cent. (in rhetoric): from late Latin, from Greek klimax ‘ladder, climax’. The sense ‘culmination’ arose in the late 18th cent.
 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  orgasm, sexual climax, coming, culmination, flood tide, culminate