Eminent may refer to:
- High in station, rank, or repute; prominent; distinguished: eminent statesmen.
- Eminent domain, the power of a state to acquire private property without the owner's consent
- Eminent Technology, an American manufacturer of audio equipment
- Eminent NV, a Dutch manufacturer of electronic organs
- Eminent Europe, a Dutch manufacturer of consumer electronics, domotics and computer accessories.
Famous quotes containing the word eminent:
“O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,
The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant,
The captains, merchant bankers, eminent men of letters,
The generous patrons of art, the statesmen and the rulers,
Distinguished civil servants, chairmen of many committees,
Industrial lords and petty contractors, all go into the dark....”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“An eminent teacher of girls said, “the idea of a girl’s education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The only reason I might go to the funeral is to make absolutely sure that he’s dead.”
—“An Eminent Editor” Of Press Baron. Quoted in Anthony Sampson, Anatomy of Britain Today, ch. 9 (1965)