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fame
[ feym ]
noun
- widespread reputation, especially of a favorable character; renown; public eminence:
to seek fame as an opera singer.
- common estimation or opinion generally held of a person or thing; reputation.
verb (used with object)
- Archaic. to have or spread the renown of; to make famous.
fame
/ feɪm /
noun
- the state of being widely known or recognized; renown; celebrity
- archaic.rumour or public report
verb
- tr; now usually passive to make known or famous; celebrate
he was famed for his ruthlessness
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Derived Forms
- famed, adjective
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Other Words From
- fameless adjective
- outfame verb (used with object) outfamed outfaming
- self-fame noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fame1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fame1
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Example Sentences
Her post-crown fame, though, only further begs the question: Why has there not been another Jewish Miss America since 1945?
Tim Russert and I are driving back to the Albany airport after taking our kids to the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
Any restaurant with a sustained fame ends up becoming a set, of sorts, and on that front, Sotto Sotto cinched it.
We might have thought The Comeback was about a desperate actress's shameless struggle for fame.
She is using this technique, which generations of African-Americans have used for survival, for fame and profit.
It was by popularizing tobacco in France that he gained a lasting fame.
He achieved his highest fame from his connection with the revision of the statutes of New York.
That first 'pinch' was its own priceless reward, far above present appreciation or future fame.
We have heard the fame thereof, our hands grow feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, as a woman in labour.
As these lines are not in the original, the writer may have taken them from Chaucer's Hous of Fame, ll.
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