From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Notable \Not"a*ble\, a. [F. notable, L. notabilis, fr. notare to
mark, nota mark, note. See 5th {Note}.]
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1. Capable of being noted; noticeable; plain; evident.
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2. Worthy of notice; remarkable; memorable; noted or
distinguished; as, a notable event, person.
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Note: Notable in the sense of careful, thrifty, characterized
by thrift and capacity (as, a notable housekeeper) is
pronounced by many good orthoepists, n[o^]t"[.a]*b'l,
the derivatives notableness, and notably, being also
similarly pronounced with short o in the first
syllable.
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3. Well-known; notorious. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Notable \Not"a*ble\ (n[=o]t"[.a]*b'l), n.
1. A person, or thing, of distinction.
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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.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
notable
adj 1: worthy of notice; "a noteworthy advance in cancer
research" [syn: {noteworthy}, {notable}]
2: widely known and esteemed; "a famous actor"; "a celebrated
musician"; "a famed scientist"; "an illustrious judge"; "a
notable historian"; "a renowned painter" [syn: {celebrated},
{famed}, {far-famed}, {famous}, {illustrious}, {notable},
{noted}, {renowned}]
n 1: a celebrity who is an inspiration to others; "he was host
to a large gathering of luminaries" [syn: {luminary},
{leading light}, {guiding light}, {notable}, {notability}]
From Spanish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-spa-eng]:
notable
considerable; sizable(konsiderinda)
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