Noun: eminence e-mu-nun(t)s
- High status importance owing to marked superiority
"a scholar of great eminence";
- distinction, preeminence, note
- A protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament
"The ischial eminence is a bony prominence on the lower part of the pelvis";
- tuberosity, tubercle
- (French) a person who exercises power or influence in certain areas without holding an official position
"the President's wife is an éminence grise in matters of education"
Derived forms: eminences
Type of: appendage, high status, important person, influential person, outgrowth, personage, process
Encyclopedia: Eminence, Kentucky