eminence

See also: éminence and Eminence

English

From Old French eminence, from Latin ēminēntia (“prominence”, “protuberance”; “eminence”, “excellence”).

eminence (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.
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eminence:

an 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.

(anatomy) protuberance

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