PROMINENCE

n. 1 celebrity, eminence, fame, distinction, notability, reputation, pre-eminence, standing, position, rank, prestige, renown, repute, importance, weight, influence, account, name, consequence They are a family of considerable prominence in the county She rose to prominence as an actress just last year. 2 hill, hillock, rise, hummock, outcrop, outcropping, spur, tor, crag, arête, spine, ridge, peak, mount, pinnacle; headland, point, promontory We planted our flag on the prominence and constructed a small cairn 3 protuberance, projection, protrusion, growth, excrescence, swelling, tumefaction, tumescence, extrusion, outshoot, outgrowth, spur, bulge If that prominence on your elbow doesn't disappear in a day or so, I should see a doctor