fame
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /feɪm/
fame (uncountable)
- (now, rare) What is said or reported; gossip, rumour.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 651-4:
- There went a fame in Heav'n that he ere long / Intended to create, and therein plant / A generation, whom his choice regard / Should favour […].
- 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin 2013, page 23:
- If the accused could produce a specified number of honest neighbours to swear publicly that the suspicion was unfounded, and if no one else came forward to contradict them convincingly, the charge was dropped: otherwise the common fame was held to be true.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 651-4:
- One's reputation.
- The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene iii]:
- I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited.
- Antonyms: obscurity, unknownness
- French: gloire, célébrité
- German: Ruhm, Berühmtheit, Bekanntheit
- Italian: fama
- Portuguese: fama
- Russian: сла́ва
- Spanish: fama
fame (fames, present participle faming; past and past participle famed)
- (transitive) to make (someone or something) famous
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