noun
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the state or quality of being notable
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a distinguished person; notable
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of notability
First recorded in 1350–1400, notability is from the Middle English word notabilite. See notable, -ity
Example Sentences
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However, not everyone is pleased by the new development, notability retired RAF engineer Steve McGranaghan, who lives opposite the units.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2024
Likewise, other members who ranked in the top 10% of notability became 35% more notable by dying at age 27, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024
He also said that the Florida Democrats “cannot dispute” the notability of Mr. Phillips.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
On Wikipedia, which is written collaboratively by self-appointed volunteers around the world, edits are approved or denied by volunteer administrators, who use a set of notability criteria to determine which articles deserve to be published.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2022
To the outer world from which McCalloway came few mountain names had percolated, attended by notability.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
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
M. and Madame Jules Simon were the first amongst a long list of notabilities to pay a visit of condolence to the family.
From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by G. Barnett Smith
He was soon on friendly terms with many of the notabilities of the capital, and there was every prospect of a congenial and lucrative journalistic activity as correspondent for German newspapers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
I got back to Oxford just in time for the festival dinner of the Canning and Chatham Clubs, at which my old schoolfellow Alfred Lyttelton, Hugh Cecil, and other Tory notabilities, were guests.
From A New Medley of Memories by David Hunter-Blair
A deputation of the notabilities of the town, with the burgomaster at their head, waited on the king to bid him farewell.
From The Prussian Terror by Alexandre Dumas
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