renown

English

Etymology

From Old French renon, from re- + non (“name”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈnaʊn/
• Rhymes: -aʊn

Noun

renown (usually uncountable, plural renowns)

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: […]

   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415, book I, page 3:

     […] 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,^[1]

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

2. (obsolete) Reports of nobleness or exploits; praise.
   • c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1,^[2]

     […] She

     Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan,

     Of whom so often I have heard renown,

     But never saw before;

Translations

Fame or wide recognition

• Arabic: شهرَة‎ f
• Aromanian: anamã f
• Czech: renomé (cs) n
• Esperanto: distingo
• Finnish: maine (fi), kuuluisuus (fi)
• French: renom (fr) m
• Galician: renome m, sona f
• German: Ansehen (de) n, Ruf (de) m, Ruhm (de) m
• Greek: φήμη (el) f (fími), δόξα (el) f (dóxa)

  Ancient: κῦδος n (kûdos), κλέος n (kléos)

• Hebrew: מוֹנִיטִין‎ (he) m pl (monitin)
• Irish: clú m, alladh m

• Italian: rinomanza f, celebrità (it) f, fama (it) f
• Latin: fāma f
• Manx: ard-ennym m
• Polish: renoma (pl) f
• Portuguese: renome (pt) m
• Romanian: renume (ro), faimă (ro) f
• Russian: изве́стность (ru) f (izvéstnostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: cliù m
• Spanish: renombre (es) m, distinción (es) f, fama (es) f
• Swedish: ryktbarhet (sv) c, anseende (sv) n, namnkunnighet c
• Tagalog: kabalitaan
• Turkish: şan (tr), şöhret (tr)

See also

• renowned

Verb

renown (third-person singular simple present renowns, present participle renowning, simple past and past participle renowned)

1. (transitive) To make famous.