prominence

CEFRB2

/ˈpɹɒ.mɪ.nəns/

noun

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noun
The state of being important, famous, or easily noticed.
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noun
Extra detail
A bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

Relative importance.
The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.
Autonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains.

In context

With the appearance of a promising new writer, the aging novelist fell from prominence.
In 1949, the simple premise of discovering ordinary people who have hidden, extraordinary talents came to prominence in the UK with Opportunity Knocks, which started out as a nationwide touring radio show, before moving onto TV in 1956.

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In 1949, the simple premise of discovering ordinary people who have hidden, extraordinary talents came to prominence in the UK with Opportunity Knocks, which started out as a nationwide touring radio show, before moving onto TV in 1956.
2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC
“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

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From obsolete French prominence (compare proéminence), from Latin prominentia.