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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

fame

\\ˈfām\\ noun

ETYMOLOGY Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin fama report, fame; akin to Latin fari to speak — more at

ban

DATE 13th century

a. public estimation :

reputation

b. popular acclaim :

renown

2. archaic :

rumor

transitive verb

(famed ; fam·ing)

DATE 14th century

1. archaic :

report

repute

2. to make famous

English Etymology

fame

late 13c., "celebrity, renown," from

O.Fr
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. fame, from L. fama "talk, rumor, report, reputation," from PIE base *bha- "to speak, tell, say" (cf. Skt. bhanati "speaks;" L. fari "to say;" Arm. ban, bay "word, term;" O.C.S. bajati "to talk, tell;" O.E. boian "to boast," ben"prayer, request;" Gk. pheme "talk," phone "voice, sound," phanai"to speak;"

O.Ir
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. bann "law"). The goddess Fama was the personification of rumor in Roman mythology. The Latin derivative fabulare was the colloquial word for "speak, talk" since the time of Plautus, whence Spanish hablar.

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7

☞ fame

fame / feim / noun[U]

the state of being known and talked about by many people

名声；声誉；名气:

to achieve / win instant fame

立即获得/迅即赢得名声

to rise / shoot to fame overnight

一夜之间成名

Andrew Lloyd Webber of 'Evita' fame (= famous for 'Evita')

以《埃维塔》成名的安德鲁 · 劳埃德 · 韦伯

The town's only claim to fame is that there was once a riot there.

这个镇唯一出名之处就是那里有过一次暴乱。

She went to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune.

她为追逐名利去了好莱坞。

⇨ see also

famous

Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English

Oxford Collocations dictionary for students of English

fame

noun

VERB + FAME enjoy He was enjoying his new-found fame. | achieve, come to, find, gain, rise to, shoot to, win She found fame on the stage. He shot to fame in 1997 when he won the US Open. | bring sb, earn sb HIs adventure brought him both fame and notoriety. | seek

FAME + VERB rest on sth Her fame rests on a single book. | come to sb a man to whom fame came very late | grow, spread The restaurant's fame spread quickly.

PHRASES at the height of sb/sth's fame In 1934, when at the height of his fame, he disappeared. | sb/sth's (chief/main/only) claim to fame The town's main claim to fame is being the home of one of the strangest buildings in the world. | fame and fortune After this concert she was firmly on the road to fame and fortune. | a/sb's rise to fame

OLT

fame noun

⇨ fame

Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged

fame

I. \ˈfām\ noun

(-s)

Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin fama; akin to Greek phēmēutterance, report; derivative from the root of Latin fari to speak, Greek phanai to say, phōnē sound — more at

ban

a. : public estimation of a person or thing :

reputation

< ought to … inquire into her former and present fame — John Chamberlayne >

b. : general recognition for outstanding achievement : popular acclaim :

glory

renown

< fame is the thirst of youth — Lord Byron >

c. : recognition of an unfavorable kind :

notoriety

< achieved fame … when its school board became the first in the state to require a loyalty oath from the officers of all organizations seeking to use the school facilities — David Clinton >

2. archaic : common talk :

rumor

< and the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house — Gen 45:16 (Authorized Version) >

Synonyms:

notoriety

reputation

repute

celebrity

, é

clat

honor

renown

glory

: in this set

fame

is a general term used to indicate a state of being quite widely known. It is likely to be favorable in its connotations but, perhaps more than any of the accompanying words, may be qualified widely

< he still shines when the light of his successors is fading away; they had celebrity, Spinoza has fame — Matthew Arnold >

< fame is proof that people are gullible — R.W.Emerson >

notoriety

, sometimes still neutral in its suggestions and indicating the fact of being widely known, is likely to suggest being widely known for evil, shameful, reprehensible, or eccentric behavior

< if the occupation of steamboats be a matter of such general notoriety that the court may be presumed to know it — John Marshall >

< that brilliant, extravagant, careless Reverend Doctor Dodd who acquired some fame and much notoriety as an eloquent preacher — Havelock Ellis >

reputation

usually suggests the commonly circulated and accepted judgment of one's character; unmodified, it may suggest a quite good reputation, a measure of fame on some particular account

< the downfall of his first political reputation following the disaster of the Dardanelles expedition — New Republic >

< he went on writing war poetry and gained a good deal of reputation as one of our soldier poets — Rose Macaulay >

repute

may suggest high esteem

< the repute which a classical Latin style and the ancient classics had aquired in Renaissance Italy — G.C.Sellery >

celebrity

in this sense may suggest sudden fame and widespread popularity which may turn out to be ephemeral

< there was a time in London when no one could afford to say he had not read the Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, but that was in the spring of 1820, and the season of celebrity was often quite as short then as it is today — H.V.Gregory >

clat

in this sense may suggest a certain suddenness whereby something becomes well known or a certain brilliancy or flashiness in its reputation

< this letter was sprung, with great éclat, in public hearing — New Republic >

< consider what luster and éclat it will give you … to be the best scholar, of a gentleman, in England — Earl of Chesterfield >

honor

in this sense indicates widespread fame and esteem through achievement or position

< wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine, his honor and the greatness of his name, shall be, and make new nations — Shakespeare >

< admirals all, for England's sake, honor be yours and fame — H.J.Newbolt >

renown

means much the same as honor; it may imply additional acclaim

< filled with a nation's praise, filled with renown — Alfred Tennyson >

glory

is the strongest and most complimentary word in this group; it suggests lasting, extreme, and deserved fame

< there he [Washington] lived in noble simplicity, there he died in glory — Edward Everett >

II. transitive verb

(-ed/-ing/-s)

Etymology: Middle English famen, from fame, n.

1. : to report, consider, or repute — usually used in passive

< the fancy cannot cheat so well as she is famed to do — John Keats >

a. : to make famous or renowned — usually used in passive

< an inn … that was famed for its corn bread — American Guide Series: Maryland >

b. obsolete : to make notorious or infamous

< foes enough would fame thee in their hate — Ben Jonson >

III.

Scotland

variant of

foam

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