: known widely and well : famous

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 look, a bold statement by itself, rang a significantly big and beautiful moment after the famed designer Giorgio Armani passed just a week before the event. Tanya Akim, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025 But a group of famed chefs, some of whom boast their own line of cookware, is hoping to block the new legislation. Rebecca Schneid, Time, 14 Sep. 2025 The company was founded in 1919 by Ruth Hanly Booe and Rebecca Gooch, but Booe later took on full ownership before developing her famed candy recipe in 1938. Robin Roenker, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2025 The band’s ninth studio album has been restored, remastered and expanded with an additional 25 bonus tracks, spanning alternate studio takes and live recordings by the famed bootlegger Mike Millard at Pink Floyd’s Los Angeles Sports Arena concert on April 26, 1975. Sophie Williams, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for famed

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1533, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of famed was circa 1533

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“Famed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/famed. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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