Fame
[feɪm] or [fem]
Definition
(noun.) the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed.
(noun.) favorable public reputation.
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Definition
(n.) Public report or rumor.
(n.) Report or opinion generally diffused; renown; public estimation; celebrity, either favorable or unfavorable; as, the fame of Washington.
(v. t.) To report widely or honorably.
(v. t.) To make famous or renowned.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Rumor, report, bruit, hearsay.[2]. Reputation, celebrity, glory, renown, honor, credit, NOTORIETY,."
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:report, rumor, bruit, news, tidings, renown, glory, honor, laurels, celebrity,reputation, credit
ANT:Silence, suppression, hush, disgrace, dishonor, disrepute
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Definition
n. public report or rumour: renown or celebrity chiefly in good sense.—v.t. to report: to make famous.—n. Fā′ma report rumour fame.—adjs. Famed renowned; Fame′less without renown.—Fama clamosa (Scot.) any notorious rumour ascribing immoral conduct to a minister or office-bearer in a church.—House of ill fame a brothel.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of being famous, denotes disappointed aspirations. To dream of famous people, portends your rise from obscurity to places of honor.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Having a brand of cigars named after you.
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Examples
- And the lips that shall refuse to pledge me to his well-earned fame, I term false and dishonoured, and will so maintain them with my life. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The Wrights, still quiet and unassuming, suddenly jumped into fame. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In this field of telegraph application, as in others, Edison was a very early comer, his only predecessor being the fertile and ingenious Callahan, of stock-ticker fame. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But this Pilar has the fame of being very advanced in such things. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They got fame and sympathy--he got neither. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A century has not dimmed Fulton’s fame, nor set aside his claim to be the practical inventor of the steamboat. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- But what will fame be to an ephemera who no longer exists? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Still, the fame of being spoken of by succeeding generations. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But how is your fame to be established? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Once my fancy was soothed with dreams of virtue, of fame, and of enjoyment. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- You may still win a great fame like the Louis and Laennec I have heard you speak of, and we shall all be proud of you, she ended, with a smile. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mr. Pickwick observed (says the secretary) that fame was dear to the heart of every man. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Again, is not the passionate element wholly set on ruling and conquering and getting fame? Plato. The Republic.
- But he did it with one of the bursts which have made his fame as a public speaker. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The fact was that Yeobright's fame had spread to an awkward extent before he left home. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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