eminence

UK /ˈɛmɪnəns/ US /ˈɛmɪnəns/
noun 5name 4

Definitions

noun

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.

name

1

An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Indiana, United States.

2

A ghost town in Finney County, Kansas, United States.

3

A home rule city in Henry County, Kentucky, United States.

4

A city, the county seat of Shannon County, Missouri, United States.

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