Definition of Fame

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Definition of Fame

Fame

Public report or rumor.

Report or opinion generally diffused; renown; public estimation; celebrity, either favorable or unfavorable; as, the fame of Washington.

To report widely or honorably.

To make famous or renowned.

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Fame Quotations

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
Marilyn Monroe

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.
Barack Obama

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Henry David Thoreau

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
Sun Tzu

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily Dickinson

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Emily Dickinson

Fame Translations

fame in Dutch is faam, gerucht, mare, befaamdheid
fame in Finnish is maine
fame in German is Ruf, Ruhm
fame in Italian is vanto
fame in Latin is gloria, laus
fame in Spanish is hambre, gloria, fama
fame in Swedish is anseende, rykte

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