What does eminence mean?
Eminence means Someone of high rank, reputation or social status..
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/ˈɛmɪnəns/ · noun
Someone of high rank, reputation or social status..
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.
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Eminence means Someone of high rank, reputation or social status..
Common synonyms include distinction, prominence, renown, celebrity.
Possible antonyms include obscurity, mediocrity.
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 [...].
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