prominence

plural prominences

1. countableuncountableThe state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.

   In 1949, the simple premise of discovering ordinary people who have hidden, extraordinary talents came to prominence in the UK with Opportunity Knocks, which started out as a nationwide touring radio show, before moving onto TV in 1956.

   2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC

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   “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

   1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

2. countableuncountableRelative importance.
3. countableuncountableA bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
4. countableuncountablegeographyAutonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains.
5. countableuncountableastronomyA gaseous projection, often loop-shaped, springing from the surface of the Sun or a star.