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English
Etymology
From Old French renoun (compare with Modern French renom), equivalent to re- + noun.
Pronunciation
Noun
renown (usually uncountable, plural renowns)
- Fame; celebrity; wide recognition.
c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. (First Quarto), London: G Eld for R Bonian and H Walley, , published 1609, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:She is a theame of honour and renowne, / A ſpurre to valiant and magnanimous deeds, / Whoſe preſent courage may beate downe our foes, / And fame in time to come canonize us, […]
1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Numbers 16:2:And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown: […]
1700, Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC, book I, page 3:[…] Nor envy we / Thy great Renown, nor grudge thy Victory; / 'Tis thine, O King, th' Afflicted to redreſs, / And Fame has fill'd the World with thy Succeſs; […]
1985, Lawrence Durrell, chapter 3, in Quinx, New York: Viking, page 63:[…] one day local fame would become world renown […]
- (obsolete) Reports of nobleness or achievements; praise.
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :[…] She / Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan, / Of whom so often I have heard renown, / But never saw before;
Translations
Fame or wide recognition
- Arabic: شُهْرة f (šuhra)
- Aromanian: anamã f
- Bulgarian: известност (bg) f (izvestnost), слава (bg) f (slava)
- Chinese: Mandarin: 名声 (zh) (Míngshēng),声望 (zh) (shēngwàng),声威 (zh) (shēngweī)
- Czech: renomé (cs) n
- Esperanto: distingo
- Finnish: maine (fi), kuuluisuus (fi)
- French: renom (fr) m, renommée (fr)
- Galician: renome m, sona f
- German: Ansehen (de) n, Ruf (de) m, Ruhm (de) m
- Gothic: 𐌼𐌴𐍂𐌹𐌸𐌰 f (mēriþa)
- Greek: φήμη (el) f (fími), δόξα (el) f (dóxa)
- Ancient: κῦδος n (kûdos), κλέος n (kléos)
- Hebrew: מוֹנִיטִין (he) m pl (monitin)
- Hindi: यश (hi) m (yaś), वैभव (hi) m (vaibhav), कीर्ति (hi) f (kīrti), प्रसिद्धि (hi) f (prasiddhi), ख्याति f (khyāti)
- Hungarian: hírnév (hu)
- Irish: clú m, alladh m
- Italian: rinomanza (it) f, celebrità (it) f, fama (it) f
- Khiamniungan Naga: ēpshākō
- Latin: fāma f, celebritas f
- Manx: ard-ennym m
- Plautdietsch: Beriemtheit f
- Polish: renoma (pl) f
- Portuguese: renome (pt) m
- Romanian: renume (ro), faimă (ro) f
- Russian: изве́стность (ru) f (izvéstnostʹ)
- Sanskrit: श्रवस् (sa) n (śravas), यशस् (sa) n (yaśas)
- Scottish Gaelic: cliù m
- Spanish: renombre (es) m, distinción (es) f, fama (es) f, nombradía (es) f, hao (es) m
- Swedish: ryktbarhet (sv) c, anseende (sv) n, namnkunnighet c
- Tagalog: kabalitaan
- Turkish: şan (tr), şöhret (tr)
- Ukrainian: сла́ва (uk) f (sláva)
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See also
Verb
renown (third-person singular simple present renowns, present participle renowning, simple past and past participle renowned)
- (transitive) To make famous.