Eminence

Definitions

1. Someone of high rank, reputation or social status.
   countable, uncountable
2. An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Indiana, United States.
3. The quality or state of being eminent.
   countable, uncountable
4. A ghost town in Finney County, Kansas, United States.
5. Prominence in a particular order or accumulation; esteem.
   countable, uncountable
6. A home rule city in Henry County, Kentucky, United States.
7. An elevated land area or a hill.
   countable, uncountable
8. A city, the county seat of Shannon County, Missouri, United States.
9. A protuberance.
   countable, uncountable
10. A dark purple color.
    uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“For quotations using this term, see⟳ Citations:eminence.”

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