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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, I have already. Now I need the money.
Wilhelm Steinitz

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

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

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

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

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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