noun
definition
What is said or reported; gossip, rumour.
definition
One's reputation.
definition
The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of.
verb
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To make (someone or something) famous
Examples of fame in a Sentence
But his fame rests mainly on his theological works.
His fame had not been forgotten in the Land of Oz, by any means.
Greifswald is, however, best known to fame by reason of its university.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
A kind of jam-cake, called a "Bakewell pudding," gives another sort of fame to the place.
It was against them that was broken his invincible will, sweeping away in the defeat the work of Panama, his own fortune, his fame and almost an atom of his honour.
In 1857 he became tutor and his fame as a scholar grew rapidly.
Bacon's fame in popular estimation has always rested on his mechanical discoveries.
The man who lives for fame, wealth, power, may be satisfied in this life; but he who lives for the ideals of truth, beauty, goodness, lives not for time but for eternity, for his ideals cannot be realized, and so his life fulfilled on this side of the grave.
In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.
Barclay de Tolly tried to command the army in the best way, because he wished to fulfill his duty and earn fame as a great commander.
His scientific fame is based mainly on his encouragement of astronomy.
His monastery acquired great fame and became the wealthiest in middle Russia.
Near the village a "wishing well" of ancient fame is seen, and close to it the ruins of a baptistery of extreme antiquity.
Owing to the fame of this work, he is mentioned by Dante as the Magister sex principiorum.
The jerk acted drunk with his instant fame.
George Armstrong Custer, of "Custer's Last Stand" fame, became a major general at twenty-four.
In World War II, for instance, the Singer Corporation, of sewing-machine fame, made handguns for the war effort.
They talked to me of the age of the wine and the fame of the vintage; but I thought of an older, a newer, and purer wine, of a more glorious vintage, which they had not got, and could not buy.
He is associated with the fame of his great contemporary Rab (Abba Araka q.v.).
He was a man of erudition, but he owed his fame chiefly to his personality.
Although he wrote poetry, also an anthology of verses on the monasteries of Mesopotamia and Egypt, and a genealogical work, his fame rests upon his Book of Songs (Kitab ul-Aghani), which gives an account of the chief Arabian songs, ancient and modern, with the stories of the composers and singers.
When Ravenna is taken, and Vitigis carried into captivity, Jordanes almost exults in the fact that "the nobility of the Amals and the illustrious offspring of so many mighty men have surrendered to a yet more illustrious prince and a yet mightier general, whose fame shall not grow dim through all the centuries."
Bakewell's fame as a breeder was for a time enhanced by the improvement which he effected on the Long-horned cattle, then the prevailing breed of the midland counties of England.
But his fame had reached the ears of the papal legate in England, Guy de Foulques, who in 1265 became pope as Clement IV.
His fame rests upon his exposition of the principles necessary to chemistry as a secience, but of his contributions to analytical inorganic chemistry little can be said.
Thoreau's fame will rest on Walden; or, Life in the Woods (Boston, 1854) and the Excursions (Boston, 1863), though he wrote nothing which is not deserving of notice.
For the next ten years he lived in various health resorts, in considerable suffering (he declares that the year contained for him 200 days of pure pain), but dashing off, at high pressure, the brilliant essays on which his fame rests.
The restaurant's real claim to fame is its tequila.
It is important to observe that in resting the fame of Pheidias upon the sculptures of the Parthenon we proceed with little evidence.
The " Fame," already mentioned, was shown in 1873.
Gelo's general rule was mild, and he won fame as the champion of Hellas by his great victory over the Carthaginians at Himera.
It is not surprising when these characteristics of Lamartine's work are appreciated to find that his fame declined with singular rapidity in France.
Pergamum was early distinguished for its medical school; but in this as in other respects its reputation was ultimately effaced by the more brilliant fame of Alexandria.
Jesus, 0 Lord, of waxing fame full moon, O Jesus.
His fame collected round him a host of followers, emulous of his sanctity.
His treatise on Conics gained him the title of The Great Geometer, and is that by which his fame has been transmitted to modern times.
They Were Men Of Action, Not Of Words, And Had No Thought Of Literary Fame, But Their Absorbingly Interesting Journals Are None The, Less An Essential Part Of The Literature Of The Country.
But His Fame Rests On Jean Rivard (1874), The Prose Bucolic Of The Habitant.
So in Triumph of Life, 265, "Whom from the flock of conquerors I Fame singled out for her thunderbearing minion," out seems to be due to the compositor.
The fame of his abilities and learning continued to grow.
For the fame of Paphian oil see Horn.
These form an enduring monument to his fame.
The fame of Bunyan during his life, and during the century which followed his death, was indeed great, but was almost entirely confined to religious families of the middle and lower classes.
But his reward in fame was not stinted.
He vigorously restored Roman Catholicism in his diocese, made no difficulty about submitting to the papal jurisdiction which he had forsworn, and in 1555 began the persecution to which he owes his fame.
As a politician and statesman, Chesterfield's fame rests on his short but brilliant administration of Ireland.
He accordingly returned in 1871 to England from Italy, where he was studying, and modelled the figures of Shakespeare, Fame and Clio, which were rendered in marble and in bronze.
As a politician Fourier achieved uncommon success, but his fame chiefly rests on his strikingly original contributions to science and mathematics.
In the case of Laennec himself this qualification takes nothing from his fame, for he studied so minutely the relations of post-mortem appearances to symptoms during life that, had he not discovered auscultation, his researches in morbid anatomy would have made him famous.