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no⋅ta⋅ble
[noh-tuh-buh
l]
–adjective
| 1. | worthy of note or notice; noteworthy: a notable success; a notable theory. |
| 2. | prominent, important, or distinguished: many notable artists. |
| 3. | Archaic. capable, thrifty, and industrious. |
–noun
| 4. | a prominent, distinguished, or important person. |
| 5. | (usually initial capital letter ) French History.
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| 6. | Obsolete. a notable fact or thing. |
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no·ta·ble (nō'tə-bəl) adj.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin notābilis, from notāre, to note, from nota, note; see note.] no'ta·ble·ness n., no'ta·bly adv. |
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Notable
Not"a*ble\, a. [F. notable, L. notabilis, fr. notare to mark, nota mark, note. See 5th Note.]1. Capable of being noted; noticeable; plan; evident. 2. Worthy of notice; remarkable; memorable; noted or distinguished; as, a notable event, person. Note: Notable in the sense of careful, thrifty, characterized by thrift and capacity (as, a notable housekeeper) is pronounced by many good ortho["e]pists, n[o^]t"[.a]*b'l, the derivatives notableness, and notably, being also similarly pronounced with short o in the first syllable. 3. Well-known; notorious. [Obs.] --Chaucer.Notable
Not"a*ble\, n. 1. A person, or thing, of distinction. 2. (French Hist.) One of a number of persons, before the revolution of 1789, chiefly of the higher orders, appointed by the king to constitute a representative body.
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Language Translation for : notable
Spanish:
notable, distinguido,
German:
beachtenswert,
Japanese:
注目に値する
notable
c.1340, from O.Fr. notable (13c.), from L. notabilis "noteworthy, extraordinary," from notare "to note," from nota (see note). The noun meaning "a person of distinction" is first recorded 1815.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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