Definitions for salient

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salient sa·li·ent

Spelling: [sey-lee-uh nt, seyl-yuh nt]

IPA: /ˈseɪ li ənt, ˈseɪl yənt/

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

You can make 355 anagrams from letters in salient (aeilnst).

Definitions for salient

noun

1. a salient angle or part, as the central outward-projecting angle of a bastion or an outward projection in a battle line.
2. Physical Geography. a landform that extends out beyond its surroundings, as a spur projecting from the side of a mountain. Compare reentrant (def 4).

adjective

1. prominent or conspicuous:
2. projecting or pointing outward:
3. leaping or jumping:
4. Heraldry. (of a beast) represented as leaping:

Origin of salient

1555-65; Latin salient- (stem of saliēns, present participle of salīre to spring, jump), equivalent to sali- verb stem + -ent- -ent

Examples for salient

One salient moment in the book comes during a meeting with JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.

One salient example was Ilyas Kashmiri, one of the highest-ranking al Qaeda commanders.

Plava was in a salient occupying about the middle of the Austrian line.

The point of this salient was at St. Mihiel, the other side of the Meuse.

The French did not plan to make an attack on the salient at its apex.

Here the Germans had a salient which was long and quite narrow.

But in the aggregate, immigration reform is not a salient issue for white evangelicals.

He is also known as El H, but of all his nicknames El Elegante is the most salient.

On the eastern side of the salient there were five distinct attacks.

When I sit down someday to write my memoirs and try to characterize this era, I will note three salient political features.