Prominence - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈprɑːmɪnəns|
Brit.
|ˈprɒmɪnəns|
noun
- the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent
- relative importance
- something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings (syn: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, hump, jut, protrusion, protuberance, swelling)
- relative importance
- something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings (syn: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, hump, jut, protrusion, protuberance, swelling)
he stood on the rocky prominence
Extra examples
The company rose to prominence in the 1990s.
The publicity has given him a prominence he doesn't deserve.
The importance of this event comes into historical prominence.
She first came to prominence as an artist in 1989.
...in a few short years he rose out of nowhere to prominence in the dot-com world...
Every newspaper gave prominence to the success of England's cricketers.
He had swiftly risen to prominence during the 1950s.
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