Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The quality or condition of being prominent.
- n. Something prominent, especially an area of land raised above its surroundings.
- n. Anatomy A small projection or protuberance.
- n. Astronomy A tonguelike cloud of flaming gas rising from the sun's surface, visible as part of the corona during a total solar eclipse.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The property of being prominent; a standing or jutting out from the surface of something; also, that which juts out; protuberance: as, the prominence of a joint; the prominence of a rock or cliff; the prominences of the face.
- n. The state of being conspicuous; conspicuousness; distinction; notoriety.
- n. See the adjectives.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent
- n. relative importance
- n. A bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form
- n. Autonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being prominent; a standing out from something; conspicuousness.
- n. That which is prominent; a protuberance.
WordNet 3.0
- n. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- n. relative importance
- n. the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent
Etymologies
- Latin prominentia. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“At the end of the term prominence brought its reward: Missy failed in”
“Living proof that RNC prominence is fading and the ovine followers are dwindling in number since savvy people are beginning to see the light instead of being allowed to be smitten by blind fanaticism.”
“Kennedy forever, and John Kerry for a heck of a long time, and the power of incumbency, together with few opportunities for local Republicans to gain prominence, has made Dems look stronger than they really were.”
“As Tea Partyers gain prominence, the BBAJ creative team may have even intensified their criticism in the uptown transfer.”
The Huffington Post: David Finkle: First Nighter: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Is Bloody Awful
“They need to realize that hispanics and blacks are rising in prominence in our country and the day that the rich white guy could rule everything is ending.”
“One important thing I have noticed through the five episodes so far is that Jack has really taken a step backwards in prominence among the main characters this season.”
12 « February « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy
“Though they will be competitive this fall, a return to national prominence is probably at least a year away.”
“As the cloud gains in prominence, and is increasingly seen as the next generation computing model, hardware, software and networking companies are buddying up to create a data center that runs like a computer.”
“This looks like one way Intel is circling its wagons as PC sales drop, GPUs gain prominence, and it finds itself fighting for mobile market share against chipmakers pushing ARM-based chipsets.”
“A few have even used this route to gain prominence (Yeasayer and Black Kids come to mind as two bands I heard before they were signed that have since become prominent).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘prominence’.
-
Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
-
Words starting with PRO
I've noticed many, many words start with PRO and this is just a collection of them.
professional, pronunciation, Prolagus, probable, prog, proximity, profit, procrastincate, prom, pronoun, promise, proactive and 206 more...
-
big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
-
Lump, Bump, or Part that Sticks Out
Words meaning a lump, bump, or a structure that sticks out
condyle, eminentia, tumor, projecture, condylus, nodus, tuber, umbo, bulla, torus, tuberculum, apophysis and 21 more...
-
nuxiy's Words
furbee, grey hat, dingleberrie, paleo, holy see, andorra, caitiffs, prominence, dysgenic, thule, vhemt, lithotint and 37 more...
-
vocab set 4
acknowledge, advocate, confrontation, equality, foster, indictment, intend, mentality, militant, naive, pessimistic, pious and 8 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for prominence.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.