If you talk about the ~ of someone or something, you mean that they are regarded with very great respect and are not criticized at all. (FORMAL)
...the ~ of science in the 1940s.
N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp
If you talk about the ~ of someone or something, you mean that they are regarded with very great respect and are not criticized at all. (FORMAL)
...the ~ of science in the 1940s.
N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012