| 单词 |
sommité |
| 释义 |
‖ sommité2|sɔmite| [Fr., lit. ‘summit, top, tip’.] A person of great eminence or influence.
1856Sat. Rev. 19 Apr. 496/1 We observe the name of numerous sommités of the architectural profession. 1859[see collectionize v.]. 1900W. James Let. 2 Apr. (1920) II. 121 We must go in for budding genius, if we seek a European. If an American, we can get a sommité! 1938A. Huxley Let. 12 Apr. (1969) 434, I thought him [sc. Dr. Gerald Webb] a most remarkable old man, and they all say he's one of the sommités in the matter of TB. 1965Punch 24 Nov. 752/1 A High Table is an institution; it is not merely a collection of what the French used to call sommités. |

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