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prominence

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun prominence has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

prominencen. [L. prominentia: cf. F. prominence. See Prominent. ].
  •  The quality or state of being prominent; a standing out from something; conspicuousness.  [1913 Webster]
  •  That which is prominent; a protuberance.  [1913 Webster]
Solar prominences. (Astron.) See Solar Protuberances, under Protuberance.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

prominence, n.
1 the state of being prominent.
2 a prominent thing, esp. a jutting outcrop, mountain, etc.
3 Astron. a stream of incandescent gas projecting above the sun's chromosphere.

Etymology
obs.F f. L prominentia jutting out (as PROMINENT)

THESAURUS

prominence

account, altitude, arete, arrantness, atmospheric visibility, authority, bas-relief, bellying, blatancy, boldness, bulge, bulging, ceiling, ceiling unlimited, celebrity, clarity, clearness, consequence, conspicuity, conspicuousness, crag, crystal-clearness, definiteness, definition, dignity, distinction, distinctness, elevation, embossment, eminence, esteem, evidence, evidentness, exaltation, excellence, excrescence, excrescency, extrusion, fame, flagrance, flagrancy, gibbosity, gibbousness, glory, grandeur, greatness, growth, hauteur, headland, height, heighth, heroism, high mightiness, high relief, high visibility, highness, hill, hillock, honor, hummock, illustriousness, importance, influence, influentialness, kudos, loftiness, low relief, low visibility, magnanimity, majesty, manifestness, mark, memorability, moment, mount, name, nobility, notability, note, noteworthiness, noticeability, notoriety, notoriousness, obtrusiveness, obviousness, ostentation, outcrop, outcropping, outgrowth, outstandingness, patentness, peak, percipi, perpendicular distance, pinnacle, plainness, point, position, precedence, preeminence, pressure, prestige, priority, projection, promontory, pronouncedness, protrusion, protuberance, protuberancy, rank, relief, remarkableness, renown, reputation, repute, ridge, rise, salience, saliency, salient, seeing, seniority, significance, spine, spur, standing, stature, strikingness, strong relief, sublimity, supereminence, swelling, tallness, toploftiness, tor, tuberosity, tuberousness, tumefaction, tumescence, visibility unlimited, visibility zero, weight, weightiness

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Importance

N importance, consequence, moment, prominence, consideration, mark, materialness, import, significance, concern, emphasis, interest, greatness, superiority, notability, weight, value, usefulness, gravity, seriousness, solemnity, no joke, no laughing matter, pressure, urgency, stress, matter of life and death, memorabilia, notabilia, great doings, red-letter day, great thing, great point, main chance, the be all and the end all, cardinal point, substance, gist, sum and substance, gravamen, head and front, important part, principal part, prominent part, essential part, half the battle, sine qua non, breath of one's nostrils, cream, salt, core, kernel, heart, nucleus, keynote, keystone, corner stone, trump card, salient points, top sawyer, first fiddle, prima donna, chief, triton among the minnows, 'it', important, of importance, momentous, material, to the point, not to be overlooked, not to be despised, not to be sneezed at, egregious, weighty, of note, notable, prominent, salient, signal, memorable, remarkable, unforgettable, worthy of remark, worthy of notice, never to be forgotten, stirring, eventful, grave, serious, earnest, noble, grand, solemn, impressive, commanding, imposing, urgent, pressing, critical, instant, paramount, essential, vital, all-absorbing, radical, cardinal, chief, main, prime, primary, principal, leading, capital, foremost, overruling, of vital importance in the front rank, first-rate, superior, considerable, marked, rare, significant, telling, trenchant, emphatic, pregnant, tanti, materially, in the main, above all, kat' exochin, par excellence, to crown all, to beat all, expende Hannibalem!.

Height

N height, altitude, elevation, eminence, pitch, loftiness, sublimity, tallness, stature, procerity, prominence, colossus, giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard, mount, mountain, hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap, cape, headland, foreland, promontory, ridge, hog's back, dune, rising ground, vantage ground, down, moor, moorland, Alp, uplands, highlands, heights, knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump, knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole, steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough, escarpment, edge, ledge, brae, dizzy height, tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret, campanile, turret, dome, cupola, skyscraper, pole, pikestaff, maypole, flagstaff, top mast, topgallant mast, ceiling, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide, altimetry, batophobia, satellite, spy-in-the-sky, high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall, gigantic, Patagonian, towering, beetling, soaring, hanging (gardens), elevated, upper, highest, high reaching, insessorial, perching, upland, moorland, hilly, knobby, mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing, cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching, aerial, overhanging, incumbent, overlying, superincumbent, supernatant, superimposed, prominent, tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky, on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead, airwind, upstairs, abovestairs, in the clouds, on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of, over head and ears, breast high, over, upwards, from top to bottom, e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto.

Convexity

N convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion, camber, cahot, thank-ye-ma'am, swell, intumescence, tumour, tumor, tubercle, tuberosity, excrescence, hump, hunch, bunch, boss, embossment, hub, hubble, tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump, sugar loaf, bow, mamelon, molar, belly, corporation, pot belly, gut, withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange, pimple, zit, wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain, boil, airbubble, blob, papule, verruca, papilla, nipple, teat, tit, titty, boob, knocker, pap, breast, dug, mammilla, proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz, peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag, cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves, pilaster, relief, relievo, cameo, bassorilievo, mezzorilevo, altorivievo, low relief, bas relief, high relief, hill, cape, promontory, mull, forehead, foreland, point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur, naze, ness, convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting, bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy, clavate, clavated, claviform, hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform, papulous, papilose, hemispheric, bulbous, bowed, arched, bold, bellied, tuberous, tuberculous, tumous, cornute, odontoid, lentiform, lenticular, gibbous, club shaped, hubby, hubbly, knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose, verrucose, salient, in relief, raised, repousse, bloated, (expanded).

Elevation

N elevation, raising, erection, lift, sublevation, upheaval, sublimation, exaltation, prominence, lever, crane, derrick, windlass, capstan, winch, dredge, dredger, dredging machine, dumbwaiter, elevator, escalator, lift, elevated, stilted, attollent, rampant, on stilts, on the shoulders of, on one's legs, on one's hind legs.

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