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eminence

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See also: éminence and Eminence

English

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Etymology

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From Old French eminence , from Latin ēminentia ("prominence", "protuberance"; "eminence", "excellence").

Pronunciation

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Noun

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eminence (countable and uncountable , plural eminences )

  1. Someone of high rank, reputation or social status.
    • 2026 September 14, Joseph Howlett, "25 winners of math’s ‘Nobel Prize’ decry the AI invasion of their discipline", in Scientific American‎[1] :
      [Terence] Tao is not the only mathematical eminence with a rather sudden change of heart.
  2. The quality or state of being eminent.
  3. Prominence in a particular order or accumulation; esteem.
  4. (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.
  5. (anatomy ) A protuberance.
  6. (uncountable ) A dark purple color.
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Synonyms

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Antonyms

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  • (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

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Translations

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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
color

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