Prominence Definition

prŏmə-nəns
noun
The state or quality of being prominent.
Webster's New World
Something that is prominent or that sticks out, as a hill.
Webster's New World
A small projection or protuberance.
American Heritage Medicine
Any of the luminous clouds of solar gas arching from the chromosphere into the much hotter corona: best seen at the edge of the sun, as during an eclipse.
Webster's New World

The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.

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Other Word Forms of Prominence

Noun

Singular:
prominence
Plural:
prominences

Origin of Prominence

  • Latin prominentia.

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Prominence Sentence Examples

  • Judas and his zealots were thus able to maintain their prominence and gradually to increase their power.

  • With this view he studied the latter most laboriously, and in some measure certainly not without success, for he brought into prominence several points that had hitherto escaped the notice of his predecessors.

  • Each country is described with particular regard to its people as well as to its surface, and the prominence given to the human element is of special interest.

  • It is a more remarkable fact that, in spite of his prominence, neither Henry VIII.

  • His work in the governorship brought him still more into prominence as a national leader.

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Words Starting With

PPRPRO

Words Ending With

ECENCE

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Words Starting With P and Ending With E

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