renown

UK /ɹɪˈnaʊn/ US /ɹɪˈnaʊn/

noun 2verb 1

Definitions

noun

Fame; celebrity; wide recognition.

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: […]

Reports of nobleness or achievements; praise.

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

verb

To make famous.

Collocations

ADJ.

all, established, great, intellectual, international, novel, old, senseless

VERB + RENOWN

acquire, gained, increase, lauded, place, wish, won

RENOWN + NOUN

bed, corpses, grudge, painter, thy

PREP.

through

ADV.

truly

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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, […]

Wiktionary

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: […]

Wiktionary

[…] 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; […]

Wiktionary

She has international renown as a painter.

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She's a violinist of some renown.

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Until now the city of Bilbao has been characterized as a place of international renown.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, renown is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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