notability
noun
the state or quality of being notable; distinction; prominence.
notabilities
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pluralof notability.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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To visit the New York showroom is to court the possibility of rubbing shoulders with many notabilities of rank and fashion .
From Time Magazine Archive
An evening or two later we dined with Mr. Haggard and his wife, and we were soon introduced to the various notabilities, who from the King and Queen downwards were most kind and hospitable.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
The Queen, accompanied by the Prince Consort, walked in procession through the immense aggregation of treasures, followed by an imposing array of eminent British and foreign notabilities.
From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various
He saw there most of the famous literary and artistic notabilities, and gossips pleasantly about them in the feuilleton of a German journal.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
Patenôtre pointed out various notabilities to us, but said he didn't know many people.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington
