eminence

1. 1.

   high status importance owing to marked superiority

   “a scholar of great eminence”

   Synonymsdistinctionpreeminencenote

   Broaderhigh status

   Narrowerking
2. 2.

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

   Synonymstuberositytubercle

   Broaderprocess

   Narrowerdeltoid tuberosity

Other forms of eminence

plural

eminences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about eminence

What does eminence mean?

eminence means "high status importance owing to marked superiority". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in eminence?

eminence has 3 syllables: em-i-nence. The stress falls on "em". In IPA it is /ˈɛmənəns/.

What is another word for eminence?

Close synonyms include distinction, preeminence, note, tuberosity, tubercle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is eminence a common word?

eminence is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with eminence?

1 word rhymes with eminence. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.