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UK
/fˈeɪməs/
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[ US /ˈfeɪməs/ ]
[ US /ˈfeɪməs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
widely known and esteemed
a renowned painter
an illustrious judge
a notable historian
a famous actor
a famed scientist
a celebrated musician
How To Use famous In A Sentence
- This was just a few years after Lord Byron woke to find Child Harold's Pilgrimage in the bookshops and himself famous, as it were, overnight.
- More particularly, in the hoodedness of her eyes, she reminded me of Malvina Schalkova, the Prague-born artist posthumously famous for the sketches and watercolors she made in Theresienstadt, and whose self-portrait, mirroring an infinity of sorrow, I first became familiar with when I visited Theresienstadt with Zoë. Kalooki Nights
- There had been formerly on the pathways of Dardilly calvaries built by pious forebears; destroyed on order of the revolutionary proconsul of Lyon, the famous Fouché, the crosses lay in the grass. Archive 2008-03-09
- Zunun Kadir, the famous writer, playwright and fabulist, was the founder and the pioneer of the contemporary Uighur literature.
- Qiao Gong Fang Gems is a professional supplier of high-quality jewelry gemstones in Wuzhou which famous known as "the capital of artificial gem in the world".
- Church of Constantinople was still strong, as is shown by the great work of S. Theodore of the S.udium, famous as a hymn-writer, a liturgiologist, and a defender of the faith. The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003
- The Irish actor was as famous for his varied movie roles as his drinking and womanising.
- The other cheese beloved in Savoie, the smelly, oozing reblochon, is the star of a Savoyard specialty: the famous tartiflette. Savoie the Fair
- The famous boxer killed a fierce wolf with his bare hands.
- This famous Jew boogie can shape your bootie in no time. Carin Davis: Cardio Hora: The New Jewish Fitness Fad