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Definitions: Eminence |
EminenceNoun1. High status importance owing to marked superiority; "a scholar of great eminence". 2. A protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "eminence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: EminenceSynonyms: distinction (n), note (n), preeminence (n), tubercle (n), tuberosity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clergy | Dignitaries of the church; ecclesiarch, hierarch; ebdomarius; eminence, reverence, elder, primate, metropolitan, archbishop, bishop, prelate, diocesan, suffragan, dean, subdean, archdeacon, prebendary, canon, rural dean, rector, parson, vicar, perpetual curate, residentiary, beneficiary, incumbent, chaplain, curate; deacon, deaconess; preacher, reader, lecturer; capitular; missionary, propagandist, Jesuit, revivalist, field preacher. |
Height | Noun: height, altitude, elevation; eminence, pitch; loftiness; Adjective: sublimity. |
Repute | Greatness; Adjective: eminence; height; importance; preeminence, supereminence; high mightiness, primacy; top of the ladder, top of the tree. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Eminence |
| English words defined with "eminence": deltoid eminence ♦ Eminency, eminent ♦ frontal eminence ♦ Hommock, Hypothenar ♦ Queenliness ♦ Scarry, Supereminency. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "eminence": 40019 ♦ 65466 ♦ Anterior Cruciate Ligament ♦ cerro ♦ Faye, FOREORDINATION ♦ Median Eminence, Montfaucon Watch ♦ palm-chin reflex, palmomental reflex ♦ Receding Chin ♦ Science Persecuted ♦ TOVT. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Eminence" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Czech (eminence). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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 | XXVIII International Eucharistic Congress, First General Meeting, Solemn Pontifical High Mass; His Eminence John Cardinal Bonzano, Celebrant; Choir, 60,000 parochial school children; Soldiers' Field, June 21, 1926, Chicago, Ill., U.S.A.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | His eminence Cardinal McCloskey.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Jean De La Bruyere | A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. |
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort | Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | His eloquence and religious fervour had already given the earnest of high eminence in his profession. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The heap of rubbish made a sort of eminence at the edge of the water, which prolonged like a promontory, as far as the wall of the quai. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider that pious and learned theologians have spent long lives in explaining it, and written libraries to explain their explanations; when I remember the nations have been divided and bloody battles caused by the difference between foreordination and predestination, and that millions of treasure have been expended in the effort to prove and disprove its compatibility with freedom of the will and the efficacy of prayer, praise, and a religious life, -- recalling these awful facts in the history of the word, I stand appalled before the mighty problem of its signification, abase my spiritual eyes, fearing to contemplate its portentous magnitude, reverently uncover and humbly refer it to His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons and His Grace Bishop Potter. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Eminence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.97% of the time. "Eminence" is used about 128 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.97% | 119 | 29,501 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.03% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 128 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "eminence". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Pisgah | N/A | Biblical | Eminence |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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1. Eminence, KY (city, FIPS 24904) 2. Eminence, MO (city, FIPS 22276) |
Expressions using "eminence": deltoid eminence ♦ frontal eminence ♦ his eminence ♦ Median Eminence ♦ pre eminence. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "eminence": pre-eminence. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
eminence missouri | 160 |
eminence | 111 |
eminence speaker | 69 |
eminence kentucky | 14 |
eminence front | 13 |
designer eminence | 12 |
eminence loudspeaker | 7 |
eminence thenar | 5 |
bass eminence | 5 |
eminence ride trail | 4 |
eminence guitar speaker | 4 |
eminence team | 4 |
eminence grise | 3 |
eminence kappa speaker | 3 |
eminence in | 3 |
eminence high school | 3 |
capital eminence | 3 |
eminence front mp3 | 3 |
eminence front who | 3 |
eminence front lyrics | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "eminence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | eminencë, emër (appellation, character, denomination, fame, first name, forename, Mark, name, notoriety, noun, reputation, savor, savour, substantive, title), vend i ngritur (elevation), lartësi (altitude, altitudes, elevation, headway, height, highness, Hill, inches, level, loftiness, pitch, rise, stature, superiority, swell, swelling), famë (celebrity, fame, glory, hearsay, kudos, laurels, luster, lustre, Mark, nimbus, notoriety, recognition, renown, report, reputation, repute, rumor, rumour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متميز (discrete, discriminating, distinct, distinguished, elegance, featured, genteel, peculiar, separate, special), هضبة (highland, hill, hogback, knoll, plateau, rise, socle, tor), نيافة (grace), نباهة (celebrity, intellect, shrewdness, smartness), سمو رفعة (highness, sublimity, transcendence), سناء (splendor, splendour, sublimity), ربوة (hummock), شخص رفيع المقام. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хълм (height, hump, monticule, mound, prominence), възвишеност (dignity, elevation, grandeur, loftiness), възвишение (height, prominence, rise, rising, swell, swelling, tor, upland), величие (greatness, largeness, magnificence, majesty, mightiness, splendor, splendour, sublimity), високо положение (altitude, quality), бележитост (prominence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "越 (Distinguished, Eminences, remarkable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | eminence, vìhlas (celebrity, renown), proslulost (celebrity, distinction, prestige, renown). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | eminentia rhomboidea (rhomboid eminence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مقام (Capacity, Dignity, Function, Office, Order, Pew, Portfolio, Post, Rank, Station, Stature, Status, Title), تعالی (Ascendency, Sublimity), عالیجناب , جاه (Dignity, Pomp), بلندی (Altitude, Height, Lift, Loom, Sublimity, Supremacy), بزرگی (Amplitude, Dignity, Grandeur, Magneficence, Magnitude), برجستگی (Boss, Notability, Pone, Prominence, Relieve, Snob, Swell, Thread). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | etevämmyys (superiority). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | très distingué, épine, éminence. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | erhabenheit (augustness, convexness, dignity, elevation, grandeur, greatness, illustriousness, loftiness, relief, solemnity, sublimity, superiority, transcendence), hohes ansehen, anhöhe (elevation, hill, hillock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ύψωμα (ascent, elevation, mound, rise, swell), περιωπή (quality), υπεροχή (ascendancy, dominance, excellence, forte, odds, overbalance, pre eminence, predominance, predominancy, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prevailingness, primacy, superbness, superiority, supremacy, supremeness, transcendence, transcendency, virtue), εξοχότησ (celebrity, excellency, primeness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מעמ" 'בו", בליט" (bulge, jutty, knob, lug, node, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, salience), רמ" (degree, height, high place, highland, level, plateau, standard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | magaslat (altitude, bulge, elevation, height, high ground, Hill, hummock, pitch, prominence, rise, rising ground), kiválóság (Ace, distinction, excellence, excellency, leading man, mastery, personage, pre eminence, prominence, splendour, worthy), nagyvonalúság (breadth of view, broadness, liberality), magas méltóság (dignitary), magas állás, hegycsúcs (brow, hilltop, mountain peak, Pike, piton), felsőbbrendűség (excellence, superiority, transcendence, transcendency), eminencia, emelkedettség (elevation, highness, loftiness), emelkedés (ascent, boost, climax, climb, elevation, enactment, heave, heaving, hill lift, lift, lifting, raise, raising, recovery, rise, uptrend), domb (elevation, hill, how, hump, kip, knoll, mound, Mount, prominence, rise, rising ground). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kedudukan tinggi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | eminenza (hill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 出世 (promotion, successful career), 台地 (plateau, tableland). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゅっせ (promotion, successful career), いち (earth, ground, plateau, replace, substitute land, tableland, the solid earth, theland). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 명 (Eminences). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | yrjid (headway, height, highness), mullagh (apex, capital, ceiling, ceiling of prices, crest, crest of wave, crisis, crisis of illness, culmination, peak, pinnacle, ridge, roofing, summit, top, vertex), ard-ennym (fame, renown, title), ard-cheim (dignity, elevation, high intelligence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eminenceay eminência (altitude, height, inch, rise), emigratório, elevação (ascension, banking, cant of the track, elevation, exaltation, greatness, headway, heatspot, heave, height, highness, ledge, lift, lifting, loftiness, raise, rise, rising, sublimation, superelevation of the outer rail, superelevation of the track, up, upheaval, uplift, uprise), superioridade (advantage, archness, better, boot, chic, distinctive, mastery, pre eminent, precedency, precedent, prepotency, superiority). (various references) excelenţã (excellency, superiority), eminenţã, situaţie (account, berth, billet, case, condition, footing, location, position, posture, report, setting, site, situation, state), ridicãturã de teren, rang (class, degree, dignity, order, rank, standing, state, station, status), glorie (eclat, fame, glory, luster, lustre, renown), distincţie (class, difference, distinction, elegance, honor, honour), deal (ascent, down, elevation, height, Hill, Mount, vineyard), dâmb (hillock, knob, knoll, mound), colinã (elevation, Hill, hillock, knob, knoll, mound), înãlţime (altitude, elevation, height, highness, inch, lift, loftiness, pitch, summit, superiority, top). (various references) возвышенность (down, height, lift, loftiness, rise, sublimeness, sublimity). (various references) tom (a hillock, hillock, knoll, round heap), rdan (anger, haughtiness, height, hill, pride), rd (eminent, great, high, lofty, loud; n. a height, tall). (various references) eminencija. (various references) eminencia (cusp, height). (various references) höjd (altitude, elevation, height, high, highness, Hill, top). (various references) เนิน (คำทางการ), การมีตำแหน่งสูง. (various references) yüksek mevki (eminency), tepe (apex, apical, cap, crest, crown, down, eminency, fell, head, height, Hill, hump, Mount, peak, ridge, rise, roof, tip, top, topknot, vertex), itibar (altitude, ascendancy, ascendency, authority, consideration, credit, dignity, effectiveness, eminency, esteem, estimation, face, importance, odor, odour, prestige, regard, reputation, respectability, standing, weight). (various references) височина (elevation, height), висота (altitude, height, highness, inches, stature), високе становище (dignity). (various references) mô đất sự nổi tiếng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | magnificentia. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "eminence": eminences. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "eminence": preeminence, supereminence. (additional references) | |
Words containing "eminence": preeminences, supereminences. (additional references) | |
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"Eminence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amimeche, Einen, eminance, eminens, Eminescu, emminence, maintence, meiningen, minence, ominence, reminance. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "eminence" (pronounced e"mununs) |
| 7 | e" m u n u n s | preeminence. |
| 6 | -m u n u n s | chrominance, dominance, immanence, imminence, luminance, permanence, predominance, prominence. |
| 5 | -u n u n s | abstinence, countenance, dissonance, incontinence, maintenance, ordinance, provenance, resonance, sustenance. |
| 4 | -n u n s | governance, Ordnance, penance. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, distance, disturbance, divergence, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminescence, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, performance, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, protuberance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-i-m-n-n" | |
-2 letters: icemen. | |
-3 letters: emcee, mince, niece. | |
-4 letters: cine, emic, mice, mien, mine, neem, nene, nice, nine. | |
-5 letters: cee, eme, ice, inn, men, nee, nim. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-i-m-n-n" | |
+1 letter: eminences. | |
+2 letters: comedienne, eminencies, enticement. | |
+3 letters: comediennes, enticements, impenitence, incremented, preeminence. | |
+4 letters: decrementing, encipherment, encirclement, impenitences, impermanence, impertinence, inclemencies, incompetence, intemperance, intumescence, luminescence, omnipresence, permanencies, preeminences, reminiscence. | |
+5 letters: amniocenteses, encipherments, encirclements, impermanences, impertinences, incompetences, intemperances, interlacement, intermittence, intumescences, luminescences, mercenariness, omnipresences, reconcilement, reinforcement, reminiscences, supereminence. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6D 69 6E 65 6E 63 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E m i n e n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006D 0069 006E 0065 006E 0063 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3979758071806971 |
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