eminence
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- //ˈɛmɪnəns//
Someone of high rank, reputation or social status.
sostantivo
- 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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Etimologia
From Old French eminence, from Latin ēminentia (“prominence”, “protuberance”; “eminence”, “excellence”).
Forme
- plurale
- eminences
eminence · Someone of high rank, reputation or social status.
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