English noun: prominence | |||
1. | prominence (state) the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent | ||
Broader (hypernym) | standing | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | glare, limelight, public eye, salience, saliency, spotlight, strikingness | ||
Antonyms | obscurity | ||
2. | prominence (attribute) relative importance | ||
Broader (hypernym) | importance | ||
3. | prominence (shape) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | ||
Samples | 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. | ||
Synonyms | bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, protrusion, protuberance, swelling | ||
Broader (hypernym) | projection | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | belly, caput, frontal eminence, mogul, nub, nubble, occipital protuberance, snag, wart | ||