different between personage vs eminence

English

Etymology

From Middle French personnage, from Old French personage

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?s?n?d??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??s?n?d??/
• Hyphenation: per?son?age

Noun

personage (plural personages)

1. A person, especially one who is famous or important.
   • 1872, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, page 230:

     I can only say they have been in pretty close conversation several times of late, and, if I dared to think it of so very calm and dignified a personage, I should say that her color was a little heightened after one or more of these interviews.

2. The creation of corporate persons named after living people. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. Character represented; external appearance; persona.

Translations

Anagrams

• one-pagers

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French personnage.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: per?so?na?ge

Noun

personage n (plural personages)

1. Character in a work of fiction.

English

Etymology

From Old French eminence, from Latin ?min?ntia (“prominence”, “protuberance”; “eminence”, “excellence”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m?n?ns/

Noun

eminence (countable and uncountable, plural eminences)

1. Someone of high rank, reputation or social status.
2. The quality or state of being eminent.
3. Prominence in a particular order or accumulation; esteem.
4. (geology) An elevated land area or a hill.
5. (anatomy) A protuberance.
6. (uncountable) A dark purple color.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:eminence.

Synonyms

• distinction
• prominence
• renown
• celebrity

Antonyms

• (someone of high rank, reputation or social status): obscurity
• (the quality or state of being eminent): mediocrity

Derived terms

• Eminence (your Eminence), title of honor for a Roman Catholic cardinal

Translations

Further reading

• Wikipedia article on Roman Catholic Church
• Shades of purple (Eminence) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia