Definition of famed
: known widely and well : famous
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Examples of famed in a Sentence
a bowl of the restaurant's famed chili
San Francisco's famed Golden Gate Bridge.
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The Greens neighborhood offers Brookfield Residential’s Plaza portfolio, aptly named for the famed Country Club Plaza.
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That's why the Bank of England turned to an unusual source to figure out how to make its financial reports more comprehensible to the average reader: the works of famed children's author and illustrator Dr. Seuss.
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At the famed and former J.L. Hudson stores in and around the area, the Maurice Salad was a classic.
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Danish officials on Tuesday hosed down Copenhagen's famed Little Mermaid after the statue was found doused with red paint.
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The schools carried names such as famed World War II journalist Ernie Pyle and scientist and inventor George Washington Carver.
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The famed Nepenthe’s Restaurant in Big Sur at 48510 Highway 1 is open to locals only — and guests who fly in to stay at the Post Ranch Inn.
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Gal Gadot looks to get Warner Bros and DC Comics' movie universe back on track with this stand-alone saga about the famed Amazon warrior, which will detail both her childhood origins and subsequent battle alongside Allied forces during WWI.
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At the World’s Fair, Erickson befriended famed horticulturist Luther Burbank, whose inventions included the crimson Phenomenal berry, a blackberry-raspberry cross similar to a loganberry.
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Circa 1533
First Known Use of famed
circa 1533
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: known and usually liked by many people
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