eminence
/ˈɛmɪnəns/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.21 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Indiana, United States.
name
A ghost town in Finney County, Kansas, United States.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From Old French eminence, from Latin ēminentia (“prominence”, “protuberance”; “eminence”, “excellence”).
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Phrases
eminence grise
title of honor for a Roman Catholic cardinal
frontal eminence
gray eminence
grey eminence
hypothenar eminence
ileocecal eminence
median eminence