eminence / ˈɛm ə nəns /

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eminence 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. high station, rank, or repute: philosophers of eminence.
  2. a high place or part; a hill or elevation; height.
  3. Roman Catholic Church. a title of honor, applied to cardinals.
  4. Anatomy. an elevation or projection, especially on a bone.

eminence 近义词

n. 名词 noun

importance, fame

n. 名词 noun

high ground

更多eminence例句

  1. He opens his treatise, Nicomachean Ethics, by reviewing the various contenders for the good life — pleasure, honor, wealth, health or eminence — eventually arriving at “eudaimonia,” essentially human flourishing.
  2. He sounded like neither the directorial eminence revered for his chronicles of gangsters, rockers and New York after dark, nor like good ol’ Marty, universally beloved champion of film preservation and benefactor to auteurs the world over.
  3. Now while from the scholarly perspective this claim is debatable, there is no doubt about the archaeological eminence of the site.
  4. “He was very bitter,” says longtime Granite State Republican eminence and former state attorney general Tom Rath.
  5. The eminence was asked, the next morning, “Well, you've met the young Yeats— what did you think of him?”
  6. Or, in the case of Bob Dole, they retired to a sort of a bipartisan eminence and were mostly forgotten.
  7. Tayoun served almost three years, but remained an eminence on the Philadelphia political scene.
  8. “Mr. de la Renta is far more a hot dog than an eminence grise of American fashion” Horyn wrote in her review.
  9. All parties have borne testimony to the value of his services, and the eminence of his talents.
  10. He who has attained it grows giddy, and the fiercest winds are summoned to blow him from his eminence.
  11. He was the son of a miller, and raised himself to eminence by his great talent and genius as a painter.
  12. There was another theory promulgated many years back by certain people of some degree of eminence in their own walk in life.
  13. We did not perceive the little town until we had surmounted the last eminence and were in its immediate vicinity.