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Definition I come up with for prominent is "important and well-known". http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prominent http://www.merriam-webster.com/dicti
by larrys 13y ago
Definition I come up with for prominent is "important and well-known".
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prominent http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prominent
And that is what the definition and typical usage for me (and observed by others) has always been. (Perhaps for a non american speaker it is different).
- quesera 13y agoSorry, got carried away with my recommendation of "preeminent" as a replacement with a stronger connotation of importance. The two are colloquially interchangeable, I agree. Back to semantics: in Latin, prominere means "jutting out, standing out". I fall for the originalist definition sometimes, though certainly a thing's importance can be derived from its prominence. :)