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FAME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("fame" is a kind of...):
honor; honour; laurels (the state of being honored)
Antonym:
infamy (a state of extreme dishonor)
Derivation:
famous (widely known and esteemed)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Favorable public reputation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("fame" is a kind of...):
reputation; repute (the state of being held in high esteem and honor)
Antonym:
infamy (evil fame or public reputation)
Derivation:
famous (widely known and esteemed)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb fame
Context examples:
I assure you the utmost stretch of public fame would not make me amends for the loss of any happiness in private life.”
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
It was my neighbour Warr who very good-humouredly pointed out to me all these celebrities, the echoes of whose fame had been wafted down even to our little Sussex village.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
That winter, at Dawson, Buck performed another exploit, not so heroic, perhaps, but one that put his name many notches higher on the totem-pole of Alaskan fame.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Or, if you shall so prefer to choose, a new province of knowledge and new avenues to fame and power shall be laid open to you, here, in this room, upon the instant; and your sight shall be blasted by a prodigy to stagger the unbelief of Satan.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
But how is your fame to be established? for famous you must be to satisfy all your family; and with no inclination for expense, no affection for strangers, no profession, and no assurance, you may find it a difficult matter.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
It was, then, in a year, and even in a decade, that shall be nameless, that upon one Tuesday morning in autumn we found two visitors of European fame within the walls of our humble room in Baker Street.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He had not been long seated before he complimented Mrs. Bennet on having so fine a family of daughters; said he had heard much of their beauty, but that in this instance fame had fallen short of the truth; and added, that he did not doubt her seeing them all in due time disposed of in marriage.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Yet such must be the impression conveyed to you by what appears to be the purport of my actions. Yet I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find. When I first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that I wished to be participated. But now that virtue has become to me a shadow, and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair, in what should I seek for sympathy? I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure; when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory. Once my fancy was soothed with dreams of virtue, of fame, and of enjoyment. Once I falsely hoped to meet with beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding. I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion. But now crime has degraded me beneath the meanest animal. No guilt, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be found comparable to mine. When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Since this is the only new moon of 2020 to light your tenth house of fame, you will need to find a way to work with it anyway.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It was for this reason that his desire for fame was strong.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
