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no⋅ta⋅ble

  [noh-tuh-buhl]
Use notable in a Sentence
–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.
a. one of a number of prominent men, usually of the aristocracy, called by the king on extraordinary occasions.
b. Notables, Also called Assembly of the Notables. an assembly of high-ranking nobles, ecclesiastics, and state functionaries having deliberative but not legislative or administrative powers, convoked by the king principally in 1554, 1786, and 1788, in the lattermost year to establish the manner for selecting the States-General.
6. Obsolete. a notable fact or thing.
Origin:
1300–50; ME notab(i)le < L notābilis. See note, -able

Related forms:
no⋅ta⋅ble⋅ness, noun
no⋅ta⋅bly, adverb

Synonyms:
1, 2. conspicuous, memorable, great, remarkable, noticeable, noted, outstanding, unusual, uncommon, eminent. 2. celebrated, famous.

Antonyms:
1. ordinary. 2. unknown.
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no·ta·ble   (nō'tə-bəl)   
adj.  
  1. Worthy of note or notice; remarkable: notable beauty; sled dogs that are notable for their stamina.
  2. Characterized by excellence or distinction; eminent: formed a commission of notable citizens. See Synonyms at noted.
n.  
  1. A person of distinction or great reputation. See Synonyms at celebrity.
  2. often Notable One of a council of prominent persons in pre-Revolutionary France called into assembly to deliberate at times of emergency.

[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
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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.
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