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Definition of notables:
Synonyms:
figure, mogul, a force to be reckoned with, VIP, magnate, eminence, authority figure, prime mover, leading light, mover and shaker.
Usage examples:
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Talleyrand, who had arrived at Lyons a few days before the First Consul, gave a dinner to the Cisalpine deputies and the principal notables of the city, at which the Archbishop of Milan sat on his right.
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The aversion of Asiatics from celibacy is rather to be ascribed to their surroundings in primitive times, when neighbouring clans were almost constantly at war with each other, and those chiefs and notables who had the greatest number of sturdy and valiant sons and grandsons would naturally be best able to hold their own against an enemy.
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The very fact of his past parliamentary life had caused him to be regarded as a man of some note among the notables of the Irish capital.