• IPA: /ɹɪˈnaʊn/

renown (uncountable)

1. Fame; celebrity; wide recognition.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Numbers 16:2 ↗:

     And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown: Nor envy we / Thy great Renown, nor grudge thy Victory; / 'Tis thine, O King, th' Afflicted to redreſs, / And Fame has fill'd the World with thy Succeſs; {{...}

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 12, The Cyclops

     There sleep the mighty dead as in life they slept, warriors and princes of high renown.

   • 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx, New York: Viking, Chapter Three, p. 63,

     […] one day local fame would become world renown […]

2. (obsolete) Reports of nobleness or exploits; praise.
   • circa 1611 William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1,^{[https://web.archive.org/web/20170917051218/http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=tempest&Act=5&Scene=1&Scope=scene]}

     […] She

     Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan,

     Of whom so often I have heard renown,

     But never saw before;

• French: renom
• German: Ansehen, Ruf, Ruhm
• Italian: rinomanza, celebrità, fama
• Portuguese: renome
• Russian: изве́стность
• Spanish: renombre, distinción, fama, nombradía

renown (renowns, present participle renowning; past and past participle renowned)

1. (transitive) To make famous.