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US
/ˈfeɪm/
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[ UK /fˈeɪm/ ]
[ UK /fˈeɪm/ ]
NOUN
- the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed
- favorable public reputation
How To Use fame In A Sentence
- It's worth taking chances when you're shooting at a chance of fame and wealth.
- But that is just a measure of his new-found fame. The Sun
- Wilder grew up loving Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, but his great idol was famed director Ernst Lubitsch.
- But why would you want to leave all that fame, Mr. Presley?
- Bob Miller, the Kings' play-by-play announcer since 1973 and a Hockey Hall of Fame media honoree, is scheduled to undergo what he called a precautionary surgical procedure on Latimes.com - News
- I guess the term for that is "social networking," but I remain more interested in the social than the networking, and blogging under a pseudonym six or eight times a month in a personal essayish vein isn't exactly the fast lane to fame and influence. Archive 2009-05-01
- Desperate copywriters use the ‘in the tradition of’ device, piggybacking on another writer's fame.
- The magazine is famed for its merciless political lampoons.
- And even the reputations of major figures at times fluctuate, with periods of obscurity intermitting their fame.
- India has a cuisine as diverse as its contrasting climate and the Punjab is famed for its clay ovens and tandoori cooking.