Zenith

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun hence, figuratively, the point of culmination; the greatest height; the height of success or prosperity.

II. Zenith ·noun That point in the visible celestial hemisphere which is vertical to the spectator; the point of the heavens directly overhead;

— opposed to nadir.

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