crowning achievement
Career's defining triumph
A crowning achievement is someone's greatest accomplishment—the triumph that stands above all others in a career or life.
The metaphor evokes a crown placed atop everything else: The novel is considered her crowning achievement.
The phrase often appears in retrospective assessments of a person's work or legacy.
- pinnacleUtmost summit or spire
- triumphResounding, celebrated victory
- masterpieceSupreme artistic achievement
- magnum opusCreator's supreme achievement
- piece de resistanceOutstanding item of collection
apex · zenith · high point · glory · legacy · life's work · lifetime · accolade · victory · summit · peak · culmination · finest hour · capstone · jewel · monument · breakthrough · defining moment
- achievementsaccomplishment, accomplishments, triumph, feat, milestone
- peak momentspeak, pinnacle, apex, zenith, acme
- peakspeak, summit, mountaintop, mountain peak, pinnacle
- endingsending, the end, finish, close, final
- excellenceexcellence, greatness, superior, perfection, premium
- success storiesrags to riches, success story, underdog story, comeback story, zero to hero
success vs failure
crowning achievementnadir
Lowest possible point
lowest point · fatal error · low point · rock bottom · disgrace
crown, crowns, crowned, crowning, uncrowned, achieve, achieves, achieved, achiever