Fame

Noun

 * 1)  What is said or reported; gossip, rumour.
 * 2) * 1667, There went a fame in Heav'n that he ere long / Intended to create, and therein plant / A generation, whom his choice regard / Should favour — John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 651-4
 * 3) The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of.

Derived terms

 * hall of fame
 * walk of fame

Verb

 * 1)  to make (someone or something) famous

Related terms

 * famed
 * famous

Adjectives for Fame
Adjectives

fabulous; dying; boundless; imperishable; philosophic; volatile; hallowed; bastard; genuine; partial; lawful; glorious; prophetic; academic; inferior; abstract; soaring; shouting; patrimonial; monumental artistic; tremendous; spotless; matchless immense; unqualified; illustrious; extensive prodigious; horrible; imaginary; eternal; posthumous; spurious; stainless; spreading; vague; inordinate; legal; faultless; immortal; nascent worthy; untainted; sinister; international equal; envious; additional; dead; serial unpolluted; lifelong; enduring; deadly-purchased; dingy; long.

Verbs for Fame
achieve—; acquire—; amass—; covet—; dazzle with—; destine to—; establish—; exalt to—; recapture—; renounce—; secure —; snatch at—; vault to—; —expands; — glows; —reaches; —rests on; —waxes.

Thesaurus
PR, acclaim, acclamation, acknowledgment, applause, ballyhoo, blurb, bright light, celebrity, character, common knowledge, consequence, conspicuousness, cry, currency, daylight, dignity, distinction, eclat, eminence, esteem, exposure, famousness, figure, glare, glory, greatness, heroism, honor, hoopla, hue and cry, illustriousness, kudos, limelight, loftiness, magnanimity, majesty, maximum dissemination, memorability, name, nobility, notability, note, noteworthiness, notoriety, notoriousness, plug, popularity, preeminence, press notice, prestige, prominence, public eye, public knowledge, public relations, public report, publicity, publicity story, publicness, puff, reclame, recognition, remarkableness, renown, rep, report, reputation, repute, salience, spotlight, stardom, sublimity, superiority, the bubble reputation, vogue, write-up

Etymology
From, from fame:, from  fama:, from , from. Cognate with φήμη:. Related also to for:,  boian:,  ben:,  bannan:. More at.

Noun

 * Catalan: fama
 * Czech:, ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: bekendheid
 * Esperanto: famo
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek: φήμη (feme), δόξα (doksa)
 * Hebrew:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Manx: ard-ennym


 * Persian: شهرت
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: faimă
 * Russian:, известность
 * Scottish Gaelic: cliù
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish: fama
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish: berömmelse, kändisskap
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, відомість

Anagrams

 * FEMA

Adverb

 * 1) famously

Noun

 * 1) hunger

Synonyms

 * apetito

Noun

 * 1) hunger

Etymology
From fames.

Noun

 * 1) hunger
 * Ho fame. - I'm hungry.

Related terms

 * affamare
 * affamato
 * famelico
 * sfamare

Noun
fame



Etymology
femina:.

Noun

 * 1) wife, female partner
 * 2) woman

Descendants

 * French: