Crossword clues for notability
notability
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Notability \Not`a*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. Notabilities. [Cf. F. notabilit['e] .]
Quality of being notable.
A notable, or remarkable, person or thing; a person of note. ``Parisian notabilities''
--Carlyle.A notable saying. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French notabilite, from Medieval Latin *notabilitatem (nominative *notabilitas), from Latin notabilis (see notable).\n
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The quality or state of being notable or eminent 2 (context countable English) A notable or eminent person
WordNet
n. a celebrity who is an inspiration to others; "he was host to a large gathering of luminaries" [syn: luminary, leading light, guiding light, notable]
Wikipedia
Notability is the property of being worthy of notice, having fame, or being considered to be of a high degree of interest, significance, or distinction. It also refers to the capacity to be such. Persons who are notable due to public responsibility, accomplishments, or, even, mere participation in the celebrity industry are said to have a public profile.
Usage examples of "notability".
Afghan notabilities, and the fame of the Hadda Mullah was known throughout the land.
It is to be supposed, however, that politics had managed in some way to slip into this existence devoted to muscular exercise and the hippic science, for, from a heap of the morning journals disdainfully flung upon the floor by the worthy colonel, Monsieur de Trailles picked up a copy of the legitimist organ, in which he read, under the heading of ELECTIONS, the following article: The staff of the National Guard and the Jockey Club, which had various representatives in the last Chamber, have just sent one of their shining notabilities to the one about to open.
Tom Ryfe, like other notabilities, was not without this crevice in his armour, this breach in his embattled wall.
Butters, of a neighboring town, who was to make the prayer before the Exercises of the Exhibition, and two or three notabilities of Rockland, with geoponic eyes, and glabrous, bumpless foreheads.
His own taste was fair, and he had the guidance of his old school friend Fred ffrench, who had become something of a notability in the world of antique dealers.
The notabilities and even the simple notorieties of the day brought each other freely to that temple of an old woman's not ignoble curiosity.