Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Notable

Notable , adjective

[French notable, Latin notabilis, from notare to mark, nota mark, note. See 5th Note.]

1.
Capable of being noted; noticeable; plain; evident.
2.
Worthy of notice; remarkable; memorable; noted or distinguished; as, a notable event, person.

Notable in the sense of careful, thrifty, characterized by thrift and capacity (as, a notable housekeeper) is pronounced by many good orthoepists, not"ȧ*b'l, the derivatives notableness, and notably, being also similarly pronounced with short o in the first syllable.

3.
Well-known; notorious. [Obsolete] — Chaucer

Notable (nōt"ȧ*b'l) , noun

1.
A person, or thing, of distinction.
2.
(French Hist.) 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.