eminence

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
eminence
    n 1: high status importance owing to marked superiority; "a
         scholar of great eminence" [syn: {eminence}, {distinction},
         {preeminence}, {note}]
    2: a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a
       muscle or ligament [syn: {tuberosity}, {tubercle},
       {eminence}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Eminence \Em"i*nence\, n. [L. eminentia, fr. eminens eminent:
   cf. F. ['e]minence.]
   1. That which is eminent or lofty; a high ground or place; a
      height.
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            Without either eminences or cavities. --Dryden.
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            The temple of honor ought to be seated on an
            eminence.                             --Burke.
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   2. An elevated condition among men; a place or station above
      men in general, either in rank, office, or celebrity;
      social or moral loftiness; high rank; distinction;
      preferment. --Milton.
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            You 've too a woman's heart, which ever yet
            Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty. --Shak.
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   3. A title of honor, especially applied to a cardinal in the
      Roman Catholic Church.
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from U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Eminence, KY (city, FIPS 24904)
  Location: 38.36538 N, 85.17432 W
  Population (1990): 2055 (925 housing units)
  Area: 4.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 40019
Eminence, MO (city, FIPS 22276)
  Location: 37.14627 N, 91.35853 W
  Population (1990): 582 (303 housing units)
  Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 65466
    
from U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Eminence, KY -- U.S. city in Kentucky
   Population (2000):    2231
   Housing Units (2000): 998
   Land area (2000):     2.146753 sq. miles (5.560065 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.008024 sq. miles (0.020781 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    2.154777 sq. miles (5.580846 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            24904
   Located within:       Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
   Location:             38.368127 N, 85.180449 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     40019
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Eminence, KY
    Eminence
    
from U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Eminence, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
   Population (2000):    548
   Housing Units (2000): 316
   Land area (2000):     1.886745 sq. miles (4.886647 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    1.886745 sq. miles (4.886647 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            22276
   Located within:       Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
   Location:             37.148448 N, 91.358896 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     65466
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Eminence, MO
    Eminence
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
169 Moby Thesaurus words for "eminence":
      Olympian heights, VIP, acme, aerial heights, altitude, apex,
      ascendancy, august, authority, bas-relief, bellying, big-name,
      big-time, big-timer, bigwig, boldness, bulging, ceiling,
      celebrated, charisma, charm, chief, clout, consequence,
      conspicuousness, control, credit, dignitary, dignity, distinction,
      distinguished, dizzy heights, dominance, dominant, domination,
      effect, elevation, embossment, eminent, enchantment, esteem, ether,
      exaltation, exalted, excellence, excrescence, excrescency,
      extrusion, fame, famed, famousness, favor, force, gibbosity,
      gibbousness, glory, good feeling, grandeur, great, greatness,
      hauteur, heaven, heavens, height, heighth, heights, heroism,
      high mightiness, high relief, highness, hold, honor, illustrious,
      illustriousness, importance, important, incidental power,
      influence, influentiality, influentialness, insinuation, kudos,
      leader, leadership, leverage, lift, lion, loftiness, lofty,
      low relief, luminary, magnanimity, magnetism, majesty, mark,
      mastery, memorability, moment, nobility, noble, notability,
      notable, note, noteworthiness, outstandingness, peak,
      perpendicular distance, personality, persuasion, potency, power,
      precedence, predominance, preeminence, preeminent, preponderance,
      prepotency, pressure, prestige, priority, projection, prominence,
      prominent, protrusion, protuberance, protuberancy, purchase, raise,
      rank, reign, relief, remarkableness, renown, renowned, reputation,
      repute, rise, rising ground, rule, salience, salient, say,
      seniority, significance, sky, stature, steep, stratosphere,
      suasion, sublimity, subtle influence, suggestion, supereminence,
      superiority, supremacy, sway, tallness, toploftiness, tuberosity,
      tuberousness, upper hand, uprise, vantage ground, vantage point,
      weight, weightiness, well-known, whip hand, zenith

    

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