top – English noun declension

English noun forms of top

Noun: top
Singulartop
Pluraltops

Sample Sentences

  • His kite got caught at the top of the tree.
  • But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection.
  • […]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook,[…]. [1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:]
  • We flipped the machine onto its top.
  • To mount the V8, I simply placed it on its top, and then prepped the mobo/CPU for installation (applied thermal compound). [2013 March 20, Dewayne Carel, “Cooler Master V8 CPU Cooler”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), retrieved 01 Oct 2017:]
  • Further weather information can be found at the top of your television screen.
  • Headings appear at the tops of pages.
  • Put a top on the toothpaste tube or it will go bad.
  • I bought this top as it matches my jeans.
  • I like this pyjama top.
  • Like glauncing light of Phoebus brightest ray;
  • From top to toe no place appeared bare [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 39:]
  • All the stored vengeances of Heaven fall / On her ungrateful top! [c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:]
  • The patio is at the top of my garden.
  • The shop is at the top of my street.
  • The boy was amazed at how long the top would spin.
  • to be the top of zealots [1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:]
  • to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school
  • And wears upon his baby brow the round / And top of sovereignty. [c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:]
  • After drawing their first game in Kiev the Potters are now top of Europa League Group E ahead of back-to-back games with Maccabi Tel-Aviv. [2011 September 29, Tom Rostance, “Stoke 2-1 Besiktas”, in BBC Sport:]
  • The criticism came from the very top of Australian politics, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese suggesting Thursday that Jones should try her luck with another Australian animal that was more likely to put up a fight. [2025 March 13, Hilary Whiteman, “US tourist filmed running off with baby wombat flees Australia after visa threat”, in CNN:]
  • the daily average price of packer and shipper purchases ranging between $14 and $16. Beginning with the middle of September prices moved sharply upward until a top of $18.25 was reached during the week of Sept. 25. From this high point prices moved downward sharply […] [1921, The Market Reporter, volumes 3-4, United States. Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates, page 22:]
  • As I went on doing s/m more and more, I found the idea of topping real attractive and so I started to do that. At this point in my life I'm playing top almost all the time. [1981 August 15, Nancy Wechsler, “Sadomasochism: Fears, Facts, Fantasies”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 8:]
  • I prefer being a top, and my boyfriend prefers being a bottom.
  • Jean-Alain is a man of great physical strength, and Jesse is sure he is quite a handful for his tops. [2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 336:]
  • Running up a check, I'ma drop the top
  • Baby gimme neck, you know I want some top
  • You ain't tryna fuck, then baby don't just stop [2016 November 18, J $tash, “Guap”, in No More Distractions:]
  • I get some top in my coupe […]
  • Look at yo bitch she gon' choose
  • She gon' give me top (on my block Avenue) [2017, Juice Wrld, “2017 Freestyle”, in Unreleased Songs:]
  • I just bought a new Ferrari off the lot,
  • said she a virgin but she wanna give me top,
  • she need some money so she call my phone a lot,
  • I picked it up and then I told that bitch to stop. [2017, T-Wayne, “Double Standards” (track 2, 0:42–0:55 from the start), in Forever Rickey:]
  • Man chingy chingy on opps,
  • catch ringy ringy, want lots
  • And clingy, clingy, got dots
  • She is a bad b, she gives tops [2017 December 22, “No Hook”, performed by 61 – Cee Drilla x Beans x Nz x Ruger, 0:53–1:00:]
  • His bitch gave me some top, and now he wanna send me threats [2019 March 19, Nav, “Price on My Head”, in Bad Habits:]
  • I like gettin' top (Ooh), I like drivin' coupes […]
  • Yeah I got Erza Scarlet tryna fuck (Yeah, ooh)
  • Gettin' top and watching Crunchyroll [2019 November 20, Oliver Francis, “I Like”, in The Adventures Of Oliver Francis:]
  • Just got some top from this stripper bitch, she from Kankakee [2020 February 21, King Von, “Took Her to the O”, in Levon James:]
  • She asked to give me some top and I’m down
  • Head feeling loose ‘cos I’m lit off the brown [2020 August 7, DON RCS, “Top Down”:]
  • I’m in a wraith with a thot, she gon’ give me some top, cause my music a bop, aye [2020 September 11, Ron Suno, “Wraith” ft. DDG, chorus first time 0:24–0:27:]
  • June 18 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
  • The top of my own ambition is to contribute to that work.
  • She sang at the top of her voice.
  • I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • Most cotton is sold as top, requiring only predrafting prior to spinning. [2014, W. J. Johnson, Yarn Works: How to Spin, Dye, and Knit Your Own Yarn, page 32:]
  • Hee was upon the top of his marriage with Magdalaine. [1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:]
  • There was one pair of boots in particular — a jolly, good-tempered, hearty-looking, pair of tops, that excited our warmest regard [1836, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC:]
  • What is wanted is just the reverse - i.e top or overspin, which causes the ball to revolve in the direction in which it is going. [1886, E.T.Sachs, The Boys Own Annual: Lawn-Tennis of the Present, volume 9, page 778:]
  • […] but with only three other tables on the patio apart from myself – two three-tops and a five-top – it's hard to imagine what the holdup is. [2014, Jamey Glasnovic, Lost and Found: Adrift in the Canadian Rockies, →ISBN, page 144:]
  • It is uncanny how a server can stand in front of a ten top, without the safety net of pen and paper, and remember every item ordered by each guest including salads, […] [2015, Jeff Benjamin, Front of the House: Restaurant Manners, Misbehaviors & Secrets, →ISBN:]
  • My first topswarm came off on the 25th June, and a second top on the day following; both were put into skeps of one size, and appeared to be equal as regards the number of Bees. [1866, The Scottish Gardener, page 397:]

Etymology

1. 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. Compare typologically Latin apex (<< Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“to join, attach, fasten, fit”)).
2. 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”).
3. 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. See: Middle English Nouns 'top', Old English Nouns 'topp', Dutch Nouns 'top', German Nouns 'Topp', Danish Nouns 'top', Icelandic Nouns 'toppur', Swedish Nouns 'topp', Italian Nouns 'zuffa', Dutch Nouns 'top', French Nouns 'toupie'.

Verbs referencing "top"

French Nouns top, Finnish Nouns toppi, Russian Nouns топ, French Nouns toupie, German Nouns Top, Icelandic Nouns toppur.