noun
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the state or quality of being notable
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a distinguished person; notable
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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
Regardless, it’s clear these singers encountered something profound — a reality better than the riches, stardom and notability they had come to know.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 27, 2023
So far, general notability has not stopped a few Wikipedia editors from trying to delete the articles for lesser-known highways like West Virginia Route 891.
From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2023
Often the actual houses themselves have disappeared, and it may be questioned if it were not better that in some instances a tablet commemorating a home or haunt of some notability were not omitted.
From Dickens' London by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
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
On the 5th, the municipal council of Lille, composed of Republican notabilities, spoke of conciliation, and called upon M. Thiers to affirm the Republic.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
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
Nevertheless, for better or for worse, all came out for the edification of the notabilities who ranged themselves on one side or the other of the contending parties.
From The Fourth Estate, vol.1 by Armando Palacio Vald?s
The young king brought together his old men, his witch-doctors, and other notabilities.
From Sanders of the River by Edgar Wallace
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