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fame English

Meaning fame meaning

What does fame mean?
Definitions in simple English

fame Noun

— Fame is the state of being known to many people. That singer rose to fame due to his lovely voice.

fame Verb

— When you fame something or someone, you make that object or person more well-known and famous.

fame

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

Synonyms fame synonyms

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fame English » English

renown reputation celebrity glory notoriety name repute prestige popularity honour report good reputation rumour publicity praise honor distinction rumor hearsay stardom dignity credit standing notability make famous kudos image illustriousness eminence character worth well-known well known vigour status standig sound rise riches reputation for ability renounce note news namely merit known influence honour and distinction honor and distinction greatness

Topics fame topics

What do people use fame to talk about?
Language and thought Think Know

Known, unknown
Language and thought Think Know

Secret
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation

Sports

Conjugation fame conjugation

How do you conjugate fame?

fame · verb

Examples fame examples

How do I use fame in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He is thirsty for fame.
The fame got to Tom's head.
Her good fame was greatly damaged by this.
For all his wealth and fame, he is unhappy.
I don't care for wealth and fame.
I do not care for fame.
It is not so much money as fame that he wanted.
He won fame by the novel.
He thought of them yearning for fame.
Fame is not always an accompaniment of success.
Don't chase after fame.
Some people go after fame.
He's letting his fame go to his head.
According to Andy Warhol, everyone will have fifteen minutes of fame.
Tolstoy achieved worldwide fame.
The architect achieved worldwide fame.
He doesn't dare to reach for fame.
He hoped to find fame as a poet.
Despite all his fame, he is not happy.
Even with all his wealth and fame, he's unhappy.
Christopher Columbus did not find fame. It was fame that found Christopher Columbus.
Fame and success don't always walk hand in hand.

Movie subtitles

Do you still feel like saying things about gaining fame like some heretical devil?
Van Helsing, the distinguished man of science whose fame is known even in the mountains of Transylvania.
I wanted to do something tremendous, to achieve what men of science have dreamt of since the world began, to gain wealth and fame and honour, to write my name above the greatest scientists of all time.
It's money and adventure and fame.
Or is it my fame she seeks?
Here you are, on your way to America and fame.
Ryan gets his gig, tastes a little fame, and then while he's on that endorphin high, I slap that contract right in front of him.
It would mean fame, wealth, and even a university chair, wouldn't it?
Fame!
Fame?
May I say that their fame falls far short of the reality?
To fame!
God's vassals drop and die, and sword and shield, in bloody field, both win immortal fame.
I'd give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety.
The driving force of this poor life was greed for fame and the fountain from which it was nourished was pain.
Dreaming of fame and money he was ready even to commit crime.
Vasili's fame will fly around the entire world like our Bolshevist airplane above!
The world rings with the fame of our armies!
Who knows, it might bring me fame and fortune!
Which star or group of stars has paid you to get rid of young talents who might threaten their fame?
While Essex, against the advice of Howard and Raleigh gathered fame for himself by storming the town.
You wish to complete your record as general crush Spain, make a name like Caesar's, and climb to fame.
It's not possible for me to provide for you. if I can gain fame with the sword the road to being a government official might open up for me.
How shameful! Do you still feel like saying things about gaining fame like some heretical devil? you consider yourself a human being?
With all the wealth and fame of Paris in attendance.
These hands will bring you great fame.
But she couldn't admit, even to herself. that he'd spoiled her beautiful dream of fame and fortune, a great career.
If I withdraw now, Ivanhoe wins by default, and you both will live while I shall fall from grace, a degraded knight without fame and without honor.
My one claim to fame.
The price of fame.
But that's one of the penalties of fame, I suppose.
If I'd have been careful piloting that reconnaissance plane you wouldn't have had the chance to take the pictures that won you a medal, and a good job, and fame, and money.
She had yet to find out what sinister fame he rendered her, this very Parisian doctor, by killing himself in the middle of the city.
But I've never actually known anyone. who came to New York to seek fame and fortune.

News and current affairs

And the worlds of royalty and popular fame often overlap.
That gift seems motivated more by a desire for fame than a desire to do good.
Many artists involved in the creation of the spectacle, including the fireworks specialist Cai Guo Qiang, the dance star Shen Wei, and the composer Tan Dun, earned their fame primarily in the West.
Even Zhang Yimou, the lead impresario for the event, gained fame in the West through his early films chronicling the hard life of a young modern China.
As a result, fame could be negatively, not positively, correlated with long-run accuracy.
For the sake of fame and glory now, athletes will be tempted to risk their long-term health.
The most adventurous and ambitious could seek fame and fortune in the colonies of Africa and Asia.
Indeed, Santorum's new fame will afford him a rich career as a media demagogue, even if he fails as a politician.
As his policy interests grew, Rudi's fame spread.
To be a devoted football or basketball player in the lowest series brings ridicule rather than fame.
Union bosses are derided for backwardness, intellectuals for seeking fame instead of truth, journalists for pandering.
Wolfowitz's pre-Bank claim to fame was his role as an architect of the Iraq war, arguably one of the greatest strategic debacles since Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
If the presidency goes to a politician who lacks fame and charisma, its place will forever be low down in the international pecking order.
Instead, his claim to fame was his role as architect of America's failed war in Iraq.
In Baghdad, Rasheed has gained fame - and notoriety - by seeking to inspire a new generation of Iraqi filmmakers and other young artists.
Moldova's main claim to fame is King Stephen the Great, who defeated the Ottomans in a great fifteenth century battle.
The children of Mao's senior cadres who enjoyed the greatest fame during the Cultural Revolution are now the principal beneficiaries of today's economic reforms.
Clinton has fame, money, and organization - advantages that only she (or perhaps her husband) can throw away.
Despite his murky profile, Putin's most potent claim to fame - and to power - is a dour toughness.
While he was party boss of nearby Zhejiang Province, Xi won fame for effectively promoting high-tech private enterprises and advocating the integration of the economies of the Greater Shanghai Region.

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