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Definition of Prominence
1. Noun. The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.
Specialized synonyms: Glare, Limelight, Public Eye, Spotlight, Salience, Saliency, Strikingness
Antonyms: Obscurity
Derivative terms: Prominent
2. Noun. Relative importance.
3. Noun. Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings. "The bony excrescence between its horns"
Specialized synonyms: Frontal Eminence, Occipital Protuberance, Belly, Caput, Mogul, Nub, Nubble, Snag, Wart
Generic synonyms: Projection
Derivative terms: Bulge, Bulge, Bulge, Bulge, Bulgy, Excrescent, Gibbous, Gibbous, Hump, Protrude, Protrude, Protuberant, Protuberate
Definition of Prominence
1. n. The quality or state of being prominent; a standing out from something; conspicuousness.
Definition of Prominence
1. Noun. The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent ¹
2. Noun. relative importance ¹
3. Noun. A bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form ¹
4. Noun. (''topography'') Autonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prominence
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prominence
Literary usage of Prominence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Governments and Parties in Continental Europe by Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1896)
"The interest, indeed, in Italian politics centres to an prominence unusual ...
features in Italian public life is the prominence of the personal element. ..."
2. Governments and Parties in Continental Europe by Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1896)
"The interest, indeed, in Italian politics centres to an prominence unusual degree
about the personal struggles " between the chiefs of rival factions in the ..."
3. Governments and Parties in Continental Europe by Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1896)
"The interest, indeed, in Italian politics centres to an prominence unusual ...
features in Italian public life is the prominence of the personal element. ..."
4. Governments and Parties in Continental Europe by Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1897)
"... or, to put this truth in a more *"*' general form, — one of the most striking
features in Italian public life is the prominence of the personal element. ..."
5. Natural Drills in Expression, with Selections: A Series of Exercises by Arthur Edward Phillips (1909)
"prominence OP PARTS TO WHOLE. [Besides the prominence of words and groups in
relation to the separate ideas, there is also their prominence in relation to ..."
6. A History of American Literature by Moses Coit Tyler (1879)
"I.—Early literary prominence of the clergy—Growth of the laity in intellectual
... The almanac in modern literature—Its early prominence in America— Its ..."
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