prominence

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noun

1. the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent (Freq. 3)
• Ant:
obscurity
• Derivationally related forms:
prominent
• Hypernyms:
standing
• Hyponyms:
limelight, spotlight, glare, public eye, salience,
saliency, strikingness
2. relative importance (Freq. 2)
• Derivationally related forms:
prominent
• Hypernyms:
importance
3. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge
- the hump of a camel
- he stood on the rocky prominence
- the occipital protuberance was well developed
- the bony excrescence between its horns
• Syn:
bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity,
gibbousness, jut, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence
• Derivationally related forms:
excrescent (for: excrescence), protrude (for: protrusion), protuberant (for: protuberance), protuberate (for: protuberance), gibbous (for: gibbousness), gibbous (for: gibbosity), hump (for: hump), bulgy (for: bulge), bulge (for: bulge)
• Hypernyms:
projection
• Hyponyms:
frontal eminence, occipital protuberance, belly, caput, mogul,
nub, nubble, snag, wart