prominence
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English
Etymology
From obsolete French prominence (compare proéminence), from Latin prominentia.
Pronunciation
Noun
prominence (countable and uncountable, plural prominences)
- The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.
- 1908, W B M Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly.
Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan.
“Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
- 2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC:
- In 1949, the simple premise of discovering ordinary people who have hidden, extraordinary talents came to prominence in the UK with Opportunity Knocks, which started out as a nationwide touring radio show, before moving onto TV in 1956.
- Relative importance.
- A bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
- (topography) Autonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains.
- (astronomy) A gaseous projection, often loop-shaped, springing from the surface of the Sun or a star.
Derived terms
Translations
being prominent
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relative importance
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bulge
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relative height
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gaseous projection of the Sun
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