What does "notable" mean?
Notable: 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 orthoëpists, nôt"a*b'l, the derivatives notableness, and notably, being also similarly pronounced with short o in the first syllable.
Additional senses
- 2.Well-known; notorious. [Obs.] Chaucer.
- 3.A person, or thing, of distinction.
- 4.(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.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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