prominence vs spotlight

prominence and spotlight both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
prominence	Yes	No	No	No
spotlight	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, spotlight is a hyponym of prominence; that is, spotlight is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than prominence:

Other hyponyms of prominence include glare, limelight, public eye, salience, saliency, strikingness.

prominence (noun)	spotlight (noun)
relative importance or fame	a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer
something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings	a focus of public attention
the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent

prominence (verb)	spotlight (verb)
	illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater
	move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent