NOTABLE - 12 definitions found
notable adj 1: worthy of notice; "a noteworthy advance in cancer research" [syn: noteworthy, notable] 2: widely known and esteemed; "a famous actor"; "a celebrated musician"; "a famed scientist"; "an illustrious judge"; "a notable historian"; "a renowned painter" [syn: celebrated, famed, far-famed, famous, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned] n 1: a celebrity who is an inspiration to others; "he was host to a large gathering of luminaries" [syn: luminary, leading light, guiding light, notable, notability] notable c.1340, from L. notabilis "noteworthy, extraordinary," from notare "to note." Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary notable Someone or something that is notable is important or interesting. The proposed new structure is notable not only for its height, but for its shape... With a few notable exceptions, doctors are a pretty sensible lot. ADJ: oft ADJ for n English Explanatory Dictionary notable ˈnəutəbl adj. & n. --adj. worthy of note; striking, remarkable, eminent. --n. an eminent person. øønotableness n. notably adv. [ME f. OF f. L notabilis (as NOTE)] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Notable \Not"a*ble\, a. [F. notable, L. notabilis, fr. notare to mark, nota mark, note. See 5th Note.] 1. Capable of being noted; noticeable; plan; evident. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Notable \Not"a*ble\, n. 1. A person, or thing, of distinction. 2. (French Hist.) One of a number of persons, before the revolution of 1789, chiefly of the higher orders, appointed by the king to constitute a representative body. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia NOTABLE no'-ta-b'-l (chazuth; gnostos): "Notable" is the translation of chazuth, "conspicuous" (chazah, "to see"), e.g. Da 8:5, "a notable horn," i.e. "conspicuous," the King James Version margin "a horn of sight"; Da 8:8, "notable (horns)"; of gnostos, "known" "knowledge" (Ac 4:16); of episemos, "noted," "notable" (Mt 27:16; in Ro 16:7 "of note" of epiphanes, "very manifest," "illustrious" (compare "Antiochus Epiphanes"); Ac 2:20, "that great and notable day," quoted from Joe 2:31; Septuagint for yare', "to be feared," the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) "terrible" (compare Mal 4:5); "notable" occurs also in 2 Macc 3:26 (ekprepes); 2 Macc 14:33, the Revised Version (British and American) "for all to see"; 2 Macc 6:28 (gennaios), "a notable example," the Revised Version (British and American) "noble"; notably, only in 2 Macc 14:31 (gennaios), "notably prevented," the Revised Version (British and American) "bravely," margin "nobly." W. L. Walker Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms notable I. a. 1. Remarkable, memorable, extraordinary, signal, distinguished, noted, worthy of notice. 2. Conspicuous, manifest, observable, plain, noticeable. 3. Notorious, well-known. II. a. Active, diligent, sedulous, industrious, assiduous, busy, watchful, attentive, careful, clever, smart. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) notable ˈnəutəbl adj. 1 noteworthy, noted, famous, famed, well-known, renowned, illustrious, important, prominent, eminent, outstanding, great, distinguished, celebrated, acclaimed: Many notable people attended my college. 2 remarkable, different, distinctive, singular, unusual, uncommon, pre-eminent, peerless, matchless, unmatched, unequalled, unparalleled, extraordinary, conspicuous, outstanding, memorable, unforgettable, striking: She enjoyed a notable reputation as a cellist. Last night's notable performance was enjoyed by a capacity audience. --n. 3 dignitary, personage, worthy, VIP; celebrity, luminary, Colloq (big) name, big shot: Many notables attended the charity ball. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 183 Moby Thesaurus words for "notable": Establishment, VIP, acclaimed, appalling, arrant, astonishing, baron, big, big boy, big bug, big cheese, big chief, big gun, big man, big name, big noise, big shot, big wheel, big-time operator, big-timer, bigwig, blatant, bold, brass, brass hat, celebrated, celebrity, character, chief, conspicuous, constellation, cynosure, czar, different, dignitary, dignity, distinctive, distinguished, egregious, elder, eminence, eminent, eminently, esteemed, estimable, exceedingly, exceptional, exceptionally, extraordinary, extremely, fabled, fabulous, famed, famous, fantastic, far-famed, far-heard, fat cat, father, figure, flagrant, folk hero, formidable, galaxy, glaring, great, great gun, great man, greatly, hanging out, heavyweight, hero, heroine, high-muck-a-muck, highly, his nibs, honored, hugely, idol, illustrious, immortal, important, important person, in relief, in the foreground, incredible, interests, king, leader, legendary, light, lion, lords of creation, luminaries, luminary, magnate, man of mark, marked, marvelous, master spirit, matchless, memorable, mogul, much acclaimed, mugwump, mythical, nabob, name, noble, notability, noted, noteworthy, noticeable, notorious, observable, obtrusive, of mark, of note, ostensible, outstanding, panjandrum, peerless, person of note, person of renown, personage, personality, pillar of society, pleiad, pop hero, popular, popular hero, popular idol, pot, power, power elite, prestigious, prince, prominent, pronounced, public figure, rare, recollectable, red-letter, remarkable, remarkably, rememberable, renowned, reputable, rubric, ruling circle, sachem, salient, signal, singular, social lion, somebody, something, special, star, staring, stark-staring, sticking out, striking, strikingly, superior, superstar, talked-about, talked-of, telling, the great, the top, top brass, top people, tycoon, uncommon, unforgettable, unmatched, unparalleled, unusual, very important person, well-known, wonderful, worthy |
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