eminence

See also: éminence, and Eminence

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛmɪnəns/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

eminence (countable and uncountable, plural eminences)

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. (geology) An elevated land area or a hill.
   • 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy:

     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 [...].

   • 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:

     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. (anatomy) A protuberance.
6. (uncountable) A dark purple color.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:eminence.

   eminence:  

Synonyms

• distinction
• prominence
• renown
• celebrity

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “someone of high rank, reputation or social status”): obscurity
• (antonym(s) of “the quality or state of being eminent”): mediocrity

Derived terms

• eminence grise
• Eminence (your Eminence), title of honor for a Roman Catholic cardinal
• frontal eminence
• gray eminence
• grey eminence
• hypothenar eminence
• ileocecal eminence
• median eminence
• preeminence

 

Translations

an elevated land area or a hill

• Armenian: բարձունք (hy) (barjunkʻ)

  Old Armenian: դար (dar)

• Bulgarian: възвишение (bg) n (vǎzvišenie)
• Japanese: 高地 (ja) (kōchi)
• Russian: возвышенность (ru) (vozvyšennostʹ)
• Spanish: eminencia (es), prócer (es)
• Turkish: tepe (tr)

someone of high rank, reputation or social status

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 顯貴／显贵 (zh) (xiǎnguì)

• Hungarian: kiválóság (hu)
• Ido: sinioro (io)
• Japanese: 高名 (ja) (kōmei), 顕貴 (kenki)

the quality or state of being eminent

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傑出／杰出 (zh) (jiéchū)

• Irish: ardchéim f
• Japanese: 傑出 (ja) (kesshutsu)

(geology) an elevated land area or a hill.

• Irish: mullach m

(anatomy) protuberance

• Catalan: eminència (ca) f
• Serbo-Croatian: еминенција/eminencija f, испупчење/ispupčenje n, уздигнуће/uzdignuće n
• Turkish: çıkıntı (tr), eminans, kabartı (tr)

color

Further reading

• Wikipedia article on Roman Catholic Church
• Shades of purple (Eminence) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia