salient

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

[onlybeforenoun] most important or noticeable: She pointed out the salient features of the new design. * He summarized the salient points.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

salientEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary salientEnglish›UyghurQamus salientEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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sale saleable saleroom sales clerk salesman salesmanship salesperson sales representative salesroom sales slip sales talk

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