EMINENCE

Pronunciation (US):

• EMINENCE (noun)
  The noun EMINENCE has 2 senses:

1. high status importance owing to marked superiority
2. a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament

  Familiarity information: EMINENCE used as a noun is rare.

• EMINENCE (noun)

Meaning:

High status importance owing to marked superiority

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

eminence; preeminence; distinction; note

Context example:

a scholar of great eminence

Hypernyms ("eminence" is a kind of...):

high status (a position of superior status)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eminence"):

king (preeminence in a particular category or group or field)

Meaning:

A protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

tuberosity; eminence; tubercle

Hypernyms ("eminence" is a kind of...):

appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eminence"):

deltoid eminence; deltoid tuberosity (a bump on the outside of the humerus where the deltoid muscle attaches)