Note: Notable in the sense of careful, thrifty, characterized by thrift and capacity (as, a notable housekeeper) is pronounced by many good orthoëpists, nôt"a*b'l, the derivatives notableness, and notably, being also similarly pronounced with short o in the first syllable.

3. Well-known; notorious. [Obs.] Chaucer.

NOTABLE
Not"a*ble, n.

1. A person, or thing, of distinction.

2. (French Hist.)

Defn: 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.

NOTABLENESS
Not"a*ble*ness, n.

Defn: The quality of being notable.

NOTABLY
Not"a*bly, adv.

Defn: In a notable manner.