Noun
He achieved great renown for his discoveries.
Her photographs have earned her international renown.
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Film Forum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center are presenting this follow-up to Hamaguchi’s extravagantly praised 2021 epic Drive My Car with prestige befitting a filmmaker of international renown.—Armond White, National Review, 8 May 2024 Nevertheless, Ringgold did not achieve widespread renown until more than a decade after the American People series.—Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2024
Verb
The Modern’s attention to his work helped set Mr. Botero on a path to renown.—Stephen Kinzer, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023 The old man in the piazza is experiencing something utterly alien to him: renown.—Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020 See all Example Sentences for renown
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Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English renoun, from Anglo-French renum, renoun, from renomer to report, speak of, from re- + nomer to name, from Latin nominare, from nomin-, nomen name — more at name
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