Definitions for prominence

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prominence prom·i·nence

Spelling: [prom-uh-nuh ns]

IPA: /ˈprɒm ə nəns/

Prominence is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 444 anagrams from letters in prominence (ceeimnnopr).

Definitions for prominence

noun

1. Also, prominency. the state of being prominent; conspicuousness.
2. something that is prominent; a projection or protuberance:
3. Also called solar prominence. Astronomy. an eruption of a flamelike tongue of relatively cool, high-density gas from the solar chromosphere into the corona where it can be seen during a solar eclipse or by observing strong spectral lines in its emission spectrum.

Origin of prominence

First recorded in 1590-1600, prominence is from the Latin word prōminentia a jutting out, protuberance. See prominent, -ence

Examples for prominence

Yet because of her prominence, it has had an outsized impact on the media-political complex.

prominence was given to local endeavor in behalf of the helpless poor.

He first rose to prominence as a lawyer in Queens, who settled a boiling racial dispute over public housing in Forest Hills.

This puts them at odds with the countless polytheistic religions, where many gods compete for prominence.

It had become a grimace that creased every wrinkle into prominence.

Being something of a political cipher may have helped Revels rise to prominence.

Yet there was a set of the mouth and a prominence of the chin which relieved him of any trace of effeminacy.

But he was prominent in nothing, for prominence was to him a thing like bodily pain.

The opposite phenomenon also occurs: neglected writers who ascend to prominence only posthumously.

This was the time when Pandit Sashadhar rose into prominence.