Renown

/ɹɪˈnaʊn/ · noun

Meaning

Fame; celebrity; wide recognition..

Definitions by Sense

1. Fame; celebrity; wide recognition.
2. (obsolete) Reports of nobleness or achievements; praise.
3. (transitive) To make famous.

Example Sentences

She is a theame of honour and renowne, / A ſpurre to valiant and magnanimous deeds, / Whoſe preſent courage may beate downe our foes, / And fame in time to come canonize us, […]

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; […]

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

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

[…] She / Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan, / Of whom so often I have heard renown, / But never saw before;

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Word Forms

• renowns
• renowning
• renowned

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