Definition of "eminence"

eminence

/ˈɛmɪnəns/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural eminences
1. Someone of high rank, reputation or social status.
2. The quality or state of being eminent.
3. Prominence in a particular order or accumulation; esteem.
4. (geology) An elevated land area or a hill.
  Quotations
  From the summit of an eminence I had already had a distant view of Osbaldistone Hall, a large and antiquated edifice, peeping out from a Druidical grove of huge oaks [...].
  1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy
  We stopped for a moment at the golf course to chat with members of the Consular staff, and then drove on to the Consulate, which was set upon an eminence, above evidences of landscape-gardening; a sweep of lawns, with coarse, whitened grass; flower-beds in which larkspur and nasturtiums fought against desperate odds.
  1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth
5. (anatomy) A protuberance.
6. (uncountable) A dark purple color.