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prominences

prominences is the plural of prominence.

Meaning of prominence

Noun

prominence (countable and uncountable, plural prominences)

  1. The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.
    • “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. Relative importance.
  3. A bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
  4. Autonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains.
  5. A gaseous projection, often loop-shaped, springing from the surface of the Sun or a star.

Phrases with prominences

Questions about prominences

What is prominences the plural of?
Prominences is the plural of prominence.

Words near prominences in the dictionary

  1. promilitarists
  2. promilitary
  3. promin
  4. promine
  5. prominence
  6. prominences
  7. prominencies
  8. prominency
  9. prominent
  10. prominent moth
  11. prominent moths

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prominences (page history and authors); prominence (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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