eminence
noun/ˈɛmɪnəns/
Etymology From Old French eminence, from Latin ēminentia (“prominence”, “protuberance”; “eminence”, “excellence”).
1
Someone of high rank, reputation or social status.
2
The quality or state of being eminent.
3
Prominence in a particular order or accumulation; esteem.
- 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 [...].1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
- 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.1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:
6
A dark purple color.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:eminence.
- Synonyms
- distinction, prominence, renown, celebrity
- Antonyms
- obscurity, mediocrity
- Derived terms
- eminectomy, eminence grise, Eminence, title of honor for a Roman Catholic cardinal, frontal eminence, gray eminence, grey eminence, hypothenar eminence, ileocecal eminence, median eminence, preeminence