Noun
He achieved great renown for his discoveries.
Her photographs have earned her international renown.
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There are a lot of reasons for this dynastic recent past, of course, and for the Chiefs’ increasingly world-wide renown.—Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2025 This is realistic talk from any FCS coach who faces an FBS program of this renown with vastly superior facilities, financial backing and decades of tradition at the highest level of the sport.—Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Blawan rose to cult renown with a series of records for UK labels including Hessle Audio.—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 2 Sep. 2025 Her character, the increasingly panicked Nostromo navigator Joan Lambert, can’t claim the same renown that Weaver’s heroic Ellen Ripley inspired, but Lambert maintains an unimpeachable place in the genre canon nonetheless.—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for renown
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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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