EMINENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eminence mean? 

• EMINENCE (noun)
  The noun EMINENCE has 2 senses:

1. high status importance owing to marked superiority

2. a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament

  Familiarity information: EMINENCE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMINENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

High status importance owing to marked superiority

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

distinction; eminence; note; preeminence

Context example:

a scholar of great eminence

Hypernyms ("eminence" is a kind of...):

high status (a position of superior status)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eminence"):

king (preeminence in a particular category or group or field)

Derivation:

eminent (standing above others in quality or position)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

eminence; tubercle; tuberosity

Hypernyms ("eminence" is a kind of...):

appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eminence"):

deltoid eminence; deltoid tuberosity (a bump on the outside of the humerus where the deltoid muscle attaches)

 Context examples 

The anterior eminence of the lamina tecti mesencephali.

(Anterior Quadrigeminal Body, NCI Thesaurus)

Strange was the scene which met their eyes from this eminence.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I am the umble instrument of umbly serving him, and he puts me on an eminence I hardly could have hoped to reach.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They were not long able, however, to enjoy the repose of the eminence they had so laboriously gained.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Specifically expressed as a 92-aa 10-kDa precursor in a small population of hypothalamic neurons by human GNRH1 Gene (GnRH Family), Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone 1 is secreted into the median eminence capillary plexus and stimulates release of LHRH and FSH from anterior pituitary gonadotropes to control female reproduction.

(Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone 1, NCI Thesaurus)

Marianne entered the house with a heart swelling with emotion from the consciousness of being only eighty miles from Barton, and not thirty from Combe Magna; and before she had been five minutes within its walls, while the others were busily helping Charlotte to show her child to the housekeeper, she quitted it again, stealing away through the winding shrubberies, now just beginning to be in beauty, to gain a distant eminence; where, from its Grecian temple, her eye, wandering over a wide tract of country to the south-east, could fondly rest on the farthest ridge of hills in the horizon, and fancy that from their summits Combe Magna might be seen.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Specifically expressed in hypothalamic neurons as a preproprotein, Gonadotropin Releasing Hormones (GnRH Family) are secreted into the median eminence capillary plexus, bind to receptors on anterior pituitary gonadotrophs, and stimulate release of LHRH and FSH gonadotropins to control female reproduction.

(Gonadotrophin Releasing Hormone, NCI Thesaurus)

Now, right before us the anchorage was bounded by a plateau from two to three hundred feet high, adjoining on the north the sloping southern shoulder of the Spy-glass and rising again towards the south into the rough, cliffy eminence called the Mizzen-mast Hill.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They gradually ascended for half-a-mile, and then found themselves at the top of a considerable eminence, where the wood ceased, and the eye was instantly caught by Pemberley House, situated on the opposite side of a valley, into which the road with some abruptness wound.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)