eminence

name

1. An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Indiana, United States.
2. A ghost town in Finney County, Kansas, United States.
3. A home rule city in Henry County, Kentucky, United States.
4. A city, the county seat of Shannon County, Missouri, United States.

noun

Etymology: From Old French eminence, from Latin ēminentia (“prominence”, “protuberance”; “eminence”, “excellence”).

1. Someone of high rank, reputation or social status.
2. The quality or state of being eminent.
3. Prominence in a particular order or accumulation; esteem.
4. An elevated land area or a hill.

   “From the summit of an eminence I had already had a distant view of Osbaldistone Hall, a large and antiquated edifice, peeping out from a Druidical grove of huge oaks [...].”

   “We stopped for a moment at the golf course to chat with members of the Consular staff, and then drove on to the Consulate, which was set upon an eminence, above evidences of landscape-gardening; a sweep of lawns, with coarse, whitened grass; flower-beds in which larkspur and nasturtiums fought against desperate odds.”

5. A protuberance.
6. A dark purple color.

   “For quotations using this term, see Citations:eminence.”