notab

n.; pl. Notabilities [ Cf. F. notabilité . ] 1. Quality of being notable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A notable, or remarkable, person or thing; a person of note. “Parisian notabilities” Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A notable saying. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A person, or thing, of distinction. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. notable, L. notabilis, fr. notare to mark, nota mark, note. See 5th Note. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Capable of being noted; noticeable; plain; evident. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Worthy of notice; remarkable; memorable; noted or distinguished; as, a notable event, person. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Notable in the sense of careful, thrifty, characterized by thrift and capacity (as, a notable housekeeper) is pronounced by many good orthoepists, the derivatives notableness, and notably, being also similarly pronounced with short o in the first syllable. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Well-known; notorious. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being notable. [ 1913 Webster ]