Noun

(Preferans) (en noun)

The selection of one thing or person over others.

The option to so select, and the one selected.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)

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The state of being preferred over others.

A strong liking or personal valuation.

A preferential bias; partiality; discrimination.

Preferans, a card game, principally played in Eastern Europe.

Noun

(en noun)

someone of high rank, reputation or social station

the quality or state of being eminent

prominence in a particular order or accumulation; esteem

(geology) an elevated land area or a hill

* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy :

From the summit of an eminence I had already had a distant view of Osbaldistone Hall, a large and antiquated edifice, peeping out from a Druidical grove of huge oaks [...].

(anatomy) a protuberance