renown
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French renon, from re- + non (“name”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
renown (uncountable)
- Fame; celebrity; wide recognition.
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1611, Bible (King James Version), 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: […]
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1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: With Original Poems, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, within Gray's Inn Gate next Gray's Inn Lane, 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 […]
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- (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;
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1,[2]
Translations[edit]
Fame or wide recognition
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