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eminent

When something is eminent, it means that it is high, lofty; towering; prominent. Something that is noteworthy, remarkable, great. His eminent good sense has been a great help to this project. Of a person, distinguished, important, noteworthy In later years, the professor was known as an eminent historian.

eminent

(= high) standing above others in quality or position people in high places the high priest eminent members of the community (= lofty, soaring, towering) of imposing height; especially standing out above others an eminent peak lofty mountains the soaring spires of the cathedral towering icebergs

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Eminent English » English

striking salient prominent leading fore eminent

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The monument was erected in honor of the eminent philosopher.
An immense monument was erected in honor of the eminent philosopher.
Mr Smith is an eminent violinist.
Picasso is an eminent painter.
Tom is an eminent scientist.

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She tells of his attack upon several of our eminent writers for no reason.
Dr. Von HaIlor is the eminent Austrian psychiatrist. probably the greatest authority on the subject in the world. At present, he's in this country on a lecture tour. and has graciously volunteered his services.
You remember the eminent Dr. Steele.
As the wife of John Sloan, the eminent architect should behave?
Yes. The eminent Dr. X.
Another eminent shyster with connections that ought to.
I hope with the help of my eminent friend Professor Faust I shall continue to be worthy of my scientific calling.
You are to make list of all eminent Europeans residing in Bangkok.
Darling, Dr. Van Helsing is a very eminent man.
He's one of the most eminent men in the country.
I shall defer to my eminent colleagues for the first question.
He's one of the most eminent medical men in Europe.
There are many eminent scholars who have documentary proof of the actual practice of witchcraft.
Did any of these eminent scholars ever meet a real practising witch?
According to von Steinmetz, the eminent physiologist, a group of phagocytes.
According to von Steinmetz, the eminent physiologist, a group of er, phagocytes.
The eminent George Bernard Shaw personally chose him to star opposite Vivien Leigh in the British production of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, released in 1946.
She tells of his attack on several eminent writers for no reason.
He is the eminent psychiatrist, a great authority on the subject.
We now take pleasure in introducing that eminent pianist Artur Rubinstein.
The eminent Dr. X.
I go now to consult my attorney. the eminent lawyer Fabian.
I had your plighted word given before our eminent cardinal. That I might choose a second time as my heart led me.
Your husband was an eminent surgeon.
Welcome to our humble village, eminent brother.
You must rest, eminent brother. Then we shall talk.
Had the eminent brother not seen these objections. we would think him a fool.
They have perplexed the most eminent scholars. These twins, ladies and gentlemen, born ten years ago today on a Polynesian island.
Eminent scientists confirm the miracle.
Or perhaps your aim is to become an eminent carpenter with a knife and a chisel and a saw.
Even you, an eminent physician.
Ever since the day when Professor Filippi published his eminent passage, everyone in the world has looked to our dear city.
But, when I saw those pictures tonight, it all seemed too eminent.
Well, sure it's eminent.
The Inspector informs us an eminent criminal proposes to intercept the cross en route.
My Dad is an eminent doctor and I've always dreamt to be worthy of him.
Her father is en eminent worker.
Of course, an eminent doctor like your self is different, I am sure.
Several thousand years in the past. in the ruins of Ur, the capital of Babylonia, which once boasted an eminent civilization, a violent monster began hibernating in the ruins, and someone had prophesied it would awaken in four thousand years.
She was married to an eminent doctor or still is, I don't know.

News and current affairs

MONROVIA, LIBERIA - This week, the 27 members of the High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda gather in Monrovia, Liberia, to advise United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
In the late 1950's, after the Soviet Union launched the first spacecraft, eminent Western economists predicted that Soviet income would overtake that of the United States in a few decades.
Robert May, an eminent climate change expert, has argued that techniques from his discipline may help explain financial-market developments.
In Italy there is now a controversial statute that will change the rules of criminal procedure in ways that might prove helpful to eminent public figures.
In Brussels on December 11th, eminent personalities from Africa and all over the world will launch an appeal open to signatures to internationalize their struggle.
The European Commission asked an eminent-persons group, chaired by Erkki Liikanen, the head of the Finnish central bank, to examine this issue on a European scale.
A Panel of Eminent Persons and a Secretariat to oversee the process is now in place.
A team of eminent economists, including several Nobel laureates, then prioritized these targets in value-for-money terms.
The panel of eminent economists has produced a much shorter list of just 19 targets that will do the most good for the world.
In 1890, buoyed by centuries of successful applications of Newtonian mechanics and the electromagnetism of Faraday and Maxwell, eminent voices proclaimed physics at an end.
It makes eminent sense.
Now one of the most eminent scientists of our time has blundered much more clumsily into the same minefield, with predictable results.
Dissidents just released from jail and eminent emigres suddenly returned home.
Latin America, frankly, will not occupy an eminent position in any future US foreign policy.
The eminent people who pass through are given opportunities only for sound bites, developed thoughts.
As a group of eminent European politicians recently noted, a two-state peace deal could be lost, leaving Israel to face a stark choice: become a non-Jewish democracy or a Jewish non-democracy.
Indeed, as the eminent historian Wang Gungwu has pointed out, the first maps to claim the South China Sea were Japanese, and were inherited by Nationalist China.
Ironically, this myth was a product of inappropriate methodology and resulted from the research of my eminent Cambridge teacher Harry Johnson; and it has inexplicably been a favorite thesis since 1990 of my celebrated MIT student Paul Krugman.

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