notability
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Noun (1)notabilities
- a celebrity who is an inspiration to others“he was host to a large gathering of luminaries”Synonyms: luminaryleading lightguiding lightnotableType of celebrity, famous person
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Not′a·bil′i·ty noun; pl. Notabilities (#).
Origin: Cf. F. notabilité.
1. Quality of being notable.
2. A notable, or remarkable, person or thing; a person of note. “Parisian notabilities” Thomas Carlyle
3. A notable saying. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54