eminence

Substantivhäufig in Dialogen

//ˈɛmɪnəns//

Someone of high rank, reputation or social status.

Substantiv

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.
4
An elevated land area or a hill.
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 [...].
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
A protuberance.
6
A dark purple color.
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Herkunft

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

Formen

Plural: eminences

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eminence · Someone of high rank, reputation or social status.

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