Definitions for notable

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notable no·ta·ble

Spelling: [noh-tuh-buh l]

IPA: /ˈnoʊ tə bəl/

Notable is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 256 anagrams from letters in notable (abelnot).

Definitions for notable

noun

1. a prominent, distinguished, or important person.
2. (usually initial capital letter) French History. one of a number of prominent men, usually of the aristocracy, called by the king on extraordinary occasions. Notables, Also called Assembly of the Notables. an assembly of high-ranking nobles, ecclesiastics, and state functionaries having deliberative but not legislative or administrative powers, convoked by the king principally in 1554, 1786, and 1788, in the lattermost year to establish the manner for selecting the States-General.
3. Obsolete. a notable fact or thing.

adjective

1. worthy of note or notice; noteworthy:
2. prominent, important, or distinguished:
3. Archaic. capable, thrifty, and industrious.

Origin of notable

1300-50; Middle English notab(i)le Latin notābilis. See note, -able

Examples for notable

If the book had nothing in it but the splendid figure of this man it would be notable.

The deftness with which he completed the task of laying bare the wound was notable.

Finally, and surely not the least notable of American traits, is public spirit.

Once established, there was nothing specially laborious or notable about it.

For the turning of the matter in our favour we have fortunately some notable examples.

But the display was notable for the eruptions of smoke from the engines, most likely Russian RD-93s.

Here are 15 notable books published in 2014 about the decade of the moment.

“We would love to finish what we started some years ago,” Branson told journalists at a news conference with notable hesitancy.

Ed Sheeran, one of the performers on the night, was a notable exception.

But these dramatic increases in spending and teachers have not yielded a notable change in overall student outcomes.