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/ˈɛmɪnənt/
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[ US /ˈɛmənənt/ ]
[ US /ˈɛmənənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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standing above others in quality or position
the high priest
people in high places
eminent members of the community -
of imposing height; especially standing out above others
towering icebergs
the soaring spires of the cathedral
an eminent peak
lofty mountains
How To Use eminent In A Sentence
- Great Alardyce is indeed of the same generation as Carlyle, Harriet Martineau numbering as a member of both eminent men's circles.
- Eating has always been preeminently a human, communal and convivial pleasure. Times, Sunday Times
- The idea seemed eminently feasible. SPICE: The History of a Temptation
- Eminent theatre personalities Zohra Segal and Ebrahim Alkazi and noted 'mridangam' Carnatic artist Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman are the other three chosen for Padma Vibhushan award by the government which, in all, named 130 people, including 13 in the category of foreigners, NRIs and PIOs. 43 are Padma Bhushan and 83 are Padma Shri. The Times of India
- To study viral infections, Weitz teamed with postdoctoral fellow Yuriy Mileyko, graduate student Richard Joh and Eberhard Voit, who is a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, the David D. Flanagan Chair Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Biological Systems and director of the new Integrative BioSystems Institute at Georgia Tech. Nearly all previous theoretical studies have claimed that switching between "lysis" and Innovations-report
- The U.S. was so pre-eminent in military power as to be unchallengeable in any serious way, but it was also widely admired and emulated.
- Viv was British rugby's pre-eminent full-back through the 1930s, last line and top dog for Wales and the Lions, an Oxford double blue, a Glamorgan cricketer and, conspicuously, the first full-back ever to score a try in a Five Nations match – against Ireland in 1934. Tons of reasons to support the monarchs of sport | Frank Keating
- But he said the county, with its lakes and mountains, had an eminently marketable image that could play well with the wider public.
- Here are some excerpts from the opinions expressed by some eminent personalities.
- Natural History From aardwolves and bandicoots to yapoks and zorillas, Ernest P. Walker's Mammals of the World is the most comprehensive - the pre-eminent - reference work on mammals.