fame

[fame]

Fame is what you have if you're a celebrity: a lot of people know who you are. A musician's fame might mean she wears sunglasses and a baseball cap to disguise herself when she's in public.

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Public report or rumor.

Noun
the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed

Noun
favorable public reputation

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.

Fame

Fame , n. [OF. fame, L. fama, fr. fari to speak, akin to Gr. a saying, report, to speak. See Ban, and cf. Fable, Fate, Euphony, Blame.] 1. Public report or rumor.

The fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house.

2. Report or opinion generally diffused; renown; public estimation; celebrity, either favorable or unfavorable; as, the fame of Washington.

I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited.

Syn. -- Notoriety; celebrity; renown; reputation.

Fame

Fame, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Famed ,; p. pr. & vb. n. Faming.] 1. To report widely or honorably.

The field where thou art famed To have wrought such wonders.

2. To make famous or renowned.

Those Hesperian gardens famed of old.

Public report or rumor.

To report widely or honorably.

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Usage Examples

Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

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Other Usage Examples

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.