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Another word for eminent

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Adjective

  1. Widely known and esteemed

    See also:

    respect

    knowledge

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Another word for eminent

Modifier

  1. Distinguished

    See also:

    famous

    important

    famous

    distinguished

  2. Physically lofty

    See also:

    high

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Sentence Examples

  • It has an old town hall, a theatre and several statues of eminent men.

  • He was in 929 an eminent degree a great master-builder.

  • Destutt de Tracy was the last eminent representative of the sensualistic school which Condillac founded in France upon a one-sided interpretation of Locke.

  • kingdom, founded by the Lombards, recognized by the Franks and recently claimed by eminent Italian feudatories, virtually ceased to exist.

  • On the other hand the better party among the priests, believing the ritual to be necessary, might undertake to moralize it; of such a movement, begun by Deuteronomy, Ezekiel is the most eminent representative.

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