renown

Definitions


[rɪˈnaʊn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the condition of being known or talked about by many people; fame
(e.g: authors of great renown)


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Origin:
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French renoun, from Old French renomer ‘make famous’, from re- (expressing intensive force) + nomer ‘to name’, from Latin nominare




definition by Oxford Dictionaries