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FAMOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Widely known and esteemed
Example:
a renowned painter
Synonyms:
celebrated; famed; famous; far-famed; illustrious; notable; noted; renowned
Classified under:
Similar:
known (apprehended with certainty)
Derivation:
fame (the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed)
fame (favorable public reputation)
Context examples:
My father explained that I had been under the charge of the famous Sir Charles Tregellis, who was my uncle, and with whom I was now residing.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So thinking, and in famous spirits, I began to set my face homeward for the block house and my companions.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Cigar Galaxy (also known as M82) is famous for its extraordinary speed in making new stars, with stars being born 10 times faster than in the Milky Way.
(Galactic Wind Provides Clues to Evolution of Galaxies, NASA)
Much prior memory research has focused on semantic memory—remembering facts, such as famous people and landmarks.
(Storing memories of recent events, NIH)
While Mars' famous red iron oxides require only a mildly oxidizing environment to form, manganese oxides require a strongly oxidizing environment, more so than previously known for Mars.
(NASA Rover Findings Point to a More Earth-like Martian Past, NASA)
Leonov was famous for performing the first human spacewalk as part of the Soviet Union's Voskhod 2 mission.
(Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov dies at age 85, Wikinews)
Pluto, the most famous of dwarf planets, has a diameter close to 2400 km, while Ceres is close to 950 km in size.
(ESO Telescope Reveals What Could be the Smallest Dwarf Planet Yet in the Solar System, ESO)
Every one of us, but Beth, wants to be rich and famous, and gorgeous in every respect.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It would be a famous good thing for us all.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Sweden was also represented, in the person of Professor Sergius, the famous Zoologist of the University of Upsala.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
