Prominence
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"My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this middle-western city for three generations. The Carraways are something of a clan and we have a tradition that we're descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather's brother who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today."--The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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- The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent
- relative importance
- A bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form
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Etymology
From prō- + *mineō (“project, jut”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out”).
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