eminence
English
editEtymology
editFrom Old French eminence, from Latin ēminēntia (“prominence”, “protuberance”; “eminence”, “excellence”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈɛmɪnəns/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editeminence (countable and uncountable, plural eminences)
- Someone of high rank, reputation or social status.
- The quality or state of being eminent.
- Prominence in a particular order or accumulation; esteem.
- (geology) An elevated land area or a hill.
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
- From the summit of an eminence I had already had a distant view of Osbaldistone Hall, a large and antiquated edifice, peeping out from a Druidical grove of huge oaks [...].
- 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:
- We stopped for a moment at the golf course to chat with members of the Consular staff, and then drove on to the Consulate, which was set upon an eminence, above evidences of landscape-gardening; a sweep of lawns, with coarse, whitened grass; flower-beds in which larkspur and nasturtiums fought against desperate odds.
- (anatomy) A protuberance.
- (uncountable) A dark purple color.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:eminence.
- eminence:
Synonyms
editAntonyms
edit- (antonym(s) of “someone of high rank, reputation or social status”): obscurity
- (antonym(s) of “the quality or state of being eminent”): mediocrity
Derived terms
edit- eminectomy
- eminence grise
- Eminence (your Eminence), title of honor for a Roman Catholic cardinal
- frontal eminence
- gray eminence
- grey eminence
- hypothenar eminence
- ileocecal eminence
- median eminence
- preeminence
Translations
editan elevated land area or a hill
someone of high rank, reputation or social status
the quality or state of being eminent
(geology) an elevated land area or a hill.
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(anatomy) protuberance
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color
Further reading
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- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *men- (stand out)
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
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