top

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The highest or uppermost part of something.
2. (countable, uncountable) The highest or uppermost part of something.
3. (countable, uncountable) The highest or uppermost part of something.
4. (countable, uncountable) The highest or uppermost part of something.
5. (countable, uncountable) The highest or uppermost part of something.
6. (countable, uncountable) The highest or uppermost part of something.
7. (countable, uncountable) The highest or uppermost part of something.
8. (archaic, countable, uncountable) The highest or uppermost part of something.
9. (countable, uncountable) The near end of somewhere.
10. (countable, uncountable) A child's spinning toy; a spinning top.
11. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Someone who is eminent.
12. (countable, uncountable) Someone who is eminent.
13. (countable, uncountable) A peak price of a security during a trading period, before it begins a downward trend.
14. (countable, uncountable) A dominant partner in a sadomasochistic relationship or roleplay.
15. (broadly, countable, uncountable) A dominant partner in a sadomasochistic relationship or roleplay.
16. (countable, uncountable) A person who penetrates or has a preference for penetrating during intercourse.
17. (Multicultural-London-English, countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar) Fellatio; a blowjob.
18. (countable, particle, uncountable) A top quark.
19. (countable, uncountable) The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
20. (countable, uncountable) A plug or conical block of wood with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
21. (countable, uncountable) Highest pitch or loudest volume.
22. (countable, uncountable) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
23. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Eve; verge; point.
24. (countable, uncountable) The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
25. (countable, dated, in-plural, slang, uncountable) Topboots.
26. (countable, uncountable) A stroke on the top of the ball.
27. (countable, uncountable) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top; topspin.
28. (countable, uncountable) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.
29. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of topswarm.
30. (countable, uncountable) The First Sergeant or Master Sergeant (U.S. Marine Corps), senior enlisted man at company level.
31. (Philippines, countable, plural-normally, uncountable) a shoot (eaten as a vegetable).

Verb

1. To cover on the top or with a top.
2. To exceed in height.
3. To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.
4. To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
5. To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
6. (British, reflexive, slang) To commit suicide.
7. (British, archaic, rare, slang) To murder or execute.
8. To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
9. (intransitive, transitive) To penetrate during intercourse.
10. (archaic) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.
11. (archaic) To excel; to rise above others.
12. To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
13. To cover with another dye.
14. To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
15. (dated, slang) To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top.
16. To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
17. To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
18. To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
19. To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Situated on the top of something.
2. (informal, not-comparable) Best; of the highest quality, fame or rank.
3. (informal, not-comparable) Very good, of high quality, power, or rank.
4. (not-comparable) Relating to the chest or breasts.

Adv

Best, highest.

Intj

The signal among tailors and seamstresses for snuffing the candle. The last of them to cry "top" had to snuff the candle.

Opposite of

bottom, base, underside, foot

Synonyms

peak

summit

head

tip

apex

cover

upper

above

lid

crown

👑

surface

end

🔚

crest

upper part

spinning top

cap

point

pinnacle

supreme

superior

roof

height

prime

best

uppermost

acme

upper side

topmost

on top

upper surface

outside

zenith

highest

ridge

climax

extreme

outdo

teetotum

whirligig

vertex

edge

excel

tiptop

culmination

maximum

surpass

leading

leader

hood

super

Translations

sommet

cima

🔝

cima

🔝

Gipfel

Spitze

Kreisel

🔝

topo

🔝

haut

cumbre

top

🔝

κορυφή

cime

toupie

🔝

Oberteil

sommità

🔝

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɒp/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: top

Inherited from Old English: top

Cognate with Scots: tap

Cognate with Northern Frisian: top

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Top

Cognate with Western Frisian: top

Cognate with Dutch: top

Cognate with Low German: Topp

Cognate with German: Zopf

Cognate with Swedish: topp

Cognate with Icelandic: toppur

Cognate with French: toupie

In summary

From Middle English top, toppe, from Old English topp (“top, highest part; summit; crest; tassel, tuft; (spinning) top, ball; a tuft or ball at the highest point of anything”), from Proto-West Germanic *topp, from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“braid, pigtail, end”), of unknown ultimate origin.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Top (“top”), Cimbrian sòpf (“braid”), Dutch top (“top, summit, peak”), German Topp (“top of a mast”), Zopf (“braid, pigtail, plait, top”), Luxembourgish Zapp (“plait, tress”), Vilamovian cöp (“braid, plait”), Yiddish צאָפּ (tsop, “braid”), Danish top (“top”), Icelandic toppur (“top”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish topp (“top, peak, summit, tip”), Italian zuffa (“brawl”).
The sense of a spinning toy is separated from this, obscurely related to Dutch top and dop in this sense, against Standard Dutch tol, and French toupie having this sense.

Sentences

This time , however , their top flight stay lasted only one season .

It's shooting branches from the trunk , which means it can't properly get its sap to the top .