prominence

English

Etymology

From obsolete French prominence (compare proéminence), from Latin prominentia.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɒ.mɪ.nəns/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɑ.mɪ.nəns/

Noun

prominence (countable and uncountable, plural prominences)

1. The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.
   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly.
     Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan.
     “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

   • 2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     In 1949, the simple premise of discovering ordinary people who have hidden, extraordinary talents came to prominence in the UK with Opportunity Knocks, which started out as a nationwide touring radio show, before moving onto TV in 1956.

2. Relative importance.
3. A bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
4. (topography) Autonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains.
5. (astronomy) A gaseous projection, often loop-shaped, springing from the surface of the Sun or a star.

Derived terms

• laryngeal prominence
• solar prominence

 

Translations

being prominent

• Bulgarian: известност (bg) f (izvestnost), забележителност (bg) f (zabeležitelnost)
• Catalan: prominència f
• Finnish: hallitsevuus (fi)
• French: proéminence (fr) f
• Greek: διάκριση (el) f (diákrisi)

  Ancient: ἐξοχή f (exokhḗ)

• Irish: ardréim f
• Italian: prominenza (it) f, sporgenza (it) f
• Korean: 중요성 (ko) n (jung'yoseong), 두드러짐 n (dudeureojim)
• Macedonian: иста́кнатост f (istáknatost), забележи́телност f (zabeležítelnost)
• Malayalam: പ്രാമുഖ്യം (prāmukhyaṁ)
• Norwegian: prominens m

  Norwegian Bokmål: framstående (person)

  Norwegian Nynorsk: framståande (person)

• Romanian: proeminență (ro) f
• Russian: призна́ние (ru) n (priznánije), изве́стность (ru) f (izvéstnostʹ)
• Spanish: prominencia f

relative importance

• Finnish: merkittävyys (fi)

bulge

• Bulgarian: издатина (bg) f (izdatina), изпъкналост (bg) f (izpǎknalost)
• Finnish: kohouma (fi), pullistuma (fi)
• French: protubérance (fr) f
• German: Protuberanz (de) f
• Greek: προεξοχή (el) f (proexochí)
• Irish: starr f
• Italian: protuberanza (it) f
• Macedonian: испа́кнатост f (ispáknatost)
• Russian: вы́пуклость (ru) f (výpuklostʹ), вы́ступ (ru) m (výstup)
• Spanish: protuberancia (es) f, prominencia f

relative height

• Finnish: suhteellinen korkeus
• Norwegian: primærfaktor (no) m
• Polish: wzniesienie (pl) n
• Russian: относительная высота́ f (otnositelʹnaja vysotá)
• Spanish: prominencia f

gaseous projection of the Sun

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 日珥 (zh) (rì'ěr)

• French: protubérance (fr) f
• German: Protuberanz (de) f
• Japanese: プロミネンス (ja)
• Manchu: ᡧᡠᠨ
  ᡧᠠᠩᡴᠠ (šun šangka)
• Spanish: protuberancia (es) f