Usually means: Widely known, respected, and influential.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word prominent:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. prominent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. prominent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prominent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prominent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prominent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Prominent, prominent: Wordnik
  7. prominent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. prominent: Wiktionary
  9. prominent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. prominent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. prominent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. prominent: Dictionary.com
  13. prominent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. prominent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Prominent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Prominent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. prominent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. prominent: Rhymezone
  19. prominent, prominent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. prominent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. prominent: Free Dictionary
  22. prominent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. prominent: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. prominent: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. prominent(e): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prominent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prominent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. prominent: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PrOMInent: Acronym Finder

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Prominent: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  standing out, or projecting; jutting; protuberant
adjective:  likely to attract attention from its size or position; conspicuous
adjective:  eminent; distinguished above others
noun:  Any of various moths having a conspicuous projection on the inner margin of the wings.
noun:  (historical) In Nazi concentration camps, an inmate entrusted with minor supervisory duties and rewarded with perquisites.

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