notability
Noun
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Noun
notability
- (uncountable) The quality or state of being notable or eminent.
- (countable) A notable or eminent person or thing.
- Locally eminent people; the bourgeoisie or upper middle class
- 2002 Jonathan B. Knudsen, Justus Möser and the German Enlightenment p.54 ↗ ISBN 0521522528
- Just as the notability lived in its own social universe between the common citizenry and the aristocracy, so too did its intellectual universe express this complex mediation.
- 2014 Keith David Watenpaugh, Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class p.104 ↗ (Princeton University Press) ISBN 9781400866663
- Such petitions were part of the role of the notability as understood at the time; a manifestation of their social hegemony was the obligation to speak for or represent the local community to the imperial center.
- 2002 Jonathan B. Knudsen, Justus Möser and the German Enlightenment p.54 ↗ ISBN 0521522528
- French: notabilité, notoriété
- German: Bekanntheit
- German: Bekanntheit, Celebrity
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