Notability

Definition: Notability

Notability

Noun

1. A celebrity who is an inspiration to others; "he was host to a large gathering of luminaries".

Date "notability" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references)

Synonyms: Notability

Synonyms: guiding light (n), leading light (n), luminary (n), notable (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Importance	Greatness; superiority; notability; (repute); weight; (influence); value; (goodness); usefulness.
Repute	Noun: distinction, mark, name, figure; repute, reputation; good repute, high repute; note, notability, notoriety, eclat, " the bubble reputation ", vogue, celebrity; fame, famousness; renown; popularity, aura popularis; approbation; credit, succes d'estime, prestige, talk of the town; name to conjure with.
	Hero, man of mark, great card, celebrity, worthy, lion, rara avis, notability, somebody; classman; man of rank; (nobleman); pillar of the state, pillar of the church, pillar of the community.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Notability

English words defined with "notability": Notabilities. (references)

Specialty definitions using "notability": Metra. (references)

"Notability" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Notability" is used about 2 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)	100%	2	245,945

Language		Translations for "notability"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		njeri i shquar (Don, notable, personage, personality, socialite, standout), të qenët i shquar, person i rëndësishëm (gun, kingpin, nibs, panjandrum, sachem). (various references)

Arabic		‏وجاهة (distinction), ‏علو الشأن, ‏الوجيه, ‏التفوق (superiority), ‏الرفعة (highness), ‏الشهير في قومه, ‏إستعلاء, ‏شهرة (bay, celebrity, fame, kudos, prominence, publicity, renown, report, reputation, repute). (various references)

Bulgarian		значение (account, amount, consequence, consideration, denotation, hang, heft, import, importance, intention, interest, magnitude, matter, meaning, message, moment, object, pith, sense, significance, signification, tenor, value, weight), значителност (importance, significance), знаменитост (celebrity, light, lion, name, notoriety, personality, prominence, star, worthy). (various references)

Czech		významná osobnost (worthy). (various references)

Farsi		اهمیت (Circumstance, Dimension, Emphasis, Gravity, Importance, Magnitude, Moment, Pith, Significance, Stress, Valor), شهرت (Attribute, Emprise, Esteem, Estimate, Fame, Grapevine, Odor, Renown, Report, Reputation), برجستگی (Boss, Eminence, Pone, Prominence, Relieve, Snob, Swell, Thread). (various references)

French		notable (notable, noteworthy), notabilité, prééminence. (various references)

German		berühmtheit (celebrity, fame, famousness, glory, illustriousness, notable, prominence, publicity, renown, stardom), bedeutung (acceptation, bearing, concern, consequence, definition, denotation, greatness, idea, implication, importance, largeness, magnitude, meaning, moment, notable, prominence, relevancy, significance, signification, value, weight, worth), bedeutende persönlichkeit (notable). (various references)

Greek		σπουδαιότητα (concernment, consequence, import, importance, moment, momentousness, notableness, pregnancy, weight), σοβαρότητα (graveness, momentousness, saturnineness, saturninity, sedateness, seriousness, soberness, solemity, solemnity, staidness), διασημότητα (celebrity, illustriousness). (various references)

Hungarian		elõkelõség (notable). (various references)

Italian		notabilit� (look, look at, reputation). (various references)

Manx		dooinney cronnal, cronnalys (distinctness, obviousness, publicity). (various references)

Pig Latin		otabilitynay

Portuguese		notabilidade (notable, worthy), observar bem, caraterística notável (notable), característica notável (notable), caráter notável (notable). (various references)

Romanian		notabilitate (respectability), personaj important (big shot, personage). (various references)

Russian		значительность (importance, sensibleness, sizableness), знаменитый человек (man of distinction, man of eminence, man of mark, man of note), знаменитость (celebrity, lion, luminary, notoriety, worthy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		znamenitost (landmark, sight), značajnost (pertinence, relevance, relevancy, weightiness), promišljenost (forethought, prudence). (various references)

Spanish		notabilidad (notable). (various references)

Swedish		notabilitet, märkvärdighet, framstående person (light). (various references)

Thai		ความโ�"�"เ�"่น (remarkableness). (various references)

Turkish		tanınmış kimse (celebrity), saygınlık (cachet, credit, esteem, grace, honor, honour, importance, note, odor, odour, prestige, reputability, repute, respectability, standing, venerability), şöhret (bays, celebrity, distinction, fame, kudos, laurels, notable, odor, odour, prominence, publicity, record, renown, rep, report, reputation, repute). (various references)

Ukranian		світило (luminary, notable, planet, sun), відомість, важливість (account, amount, concern, consequence, earnest, gravity, import, importance, magnitude, moment, pregnancy, seriousness, significance, significancy), важливе значення, видатність, значність (purposefulness), знаменитість (big-timer, celebrity, notoriety), знаменита людина, домовитість. (various references)

Vietnamese		người có danh vọng (notable), người có địa vị uy quyền tính chất trứ danh, tính chất to tát, tính chất lớn lao. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Notability" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Knitability, motability, Motobility, Motorbility, potability. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "notability" (pronounced 'Not`a*bil"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-i-i-l-n-o-t-t-y"
	-2 letters: latinity, libation, nobility, tonality.
	-3 letters: ability, anility, nattily, notably.
	-4 letters: albino, aliyot, biotin, blotty, bonita, botany, latino, lattin, litany, obtain, talion, tibial, tinily, titian.
	-5 letters: aboil, aioli, alibi, aloin, atilt, atony, banty, baton, batty, biali, bialy, binal, binit, biont, biota, bitty, blain, blini, bloat, boyla, inlay, laity, linty, litai, lytta, natty, nitty, nobly, noily.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-i-i-l-n-o-t-t-y"
	+2 letters: countability, detonability.
	+3 letters: negotiability, obtainability.
	+4 letters: accountability, antibiotically, indomitability, intolerability, untouchability.
	+5 letters: contractibility, controllability, demonstrability, gnotobiotically, hypnotizability, incompatibility.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.