renown
UK/ɹɪˈnaʊn/
renown noun: fame; celebrity; wide recognition.
Noun
renown (usually uncountable, plural renowns)
- Fame; celebrity; wide recognition.
- She is a theame of honour and renowne, / A ſpurre to valiant and magnanimous deeds, / Whoſe preſent courage may beate downe our foes, / And fame in time to come canonize us, […]c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609...
- And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown: […]1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 16:2
- Reports of nobleness or achievements; praise.
- […] She / Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan, / Of whom so often I have heard renown, / But never saw before;1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
Verb
renown (third-person singular simple present renowns, present participle renowning, simple past and past participle renowned)
- To make famous.
renown meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
renown in Hindi
- Fame or wide recognition
- यश yaś, वैभव vaibhav, कीर्ति kīrti, प्रसिद्धि prasiddhi, ख्याति khyāti
renown in Tamil
- புகழ்
renown in Marathi
- renown, fame
- यश yaś
renown in Urdu
- دھاک, اشتہار, مشہوری, نام, شہرت
More languagesFewer languages
- renown in Bengali
- খ্যাতি, প্রসিদ্ধি
- renown in Telugu
- ప్రసిద్ధి prasiddhi
- renown in Malayalam
- പുകൾ, കീർത്തി, വിഖ്യാതി, യശസ്സ്
- renown in Kannada
- ಹೊಗಳಿಕೆ, ಹೆಸರು, ಪಡೆವಾತು, ದೊರೆ
- renown in Punjabi
- ਵੱਡਾ vaḍḍā, وڈا vaḍḍā
- renown in Odia
- ଭଗ bhaga, ପ୍ରକାଶ prakāśa
- renown in Sanskrit
- श्रवस् śravas, यशस् yaśas
- renown in Tagalog
- kabalitaan
- renown in Arabic
- شُهْرة šuhra
Examples of renown in a sentence
- […] Nor envy we / Thy great Renown, nor grudge thy Victory; / 'Tis thine, O King, th' Afflicted to redreſs, / And Fame has fill'd the World with thy Succeſs; […]1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob...
- There sleep the mighty dead as in life they slept, warriors and princes of high renown.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
- […] one day local fame would become world renown […]1985, Lawrence Durrell, chapter 3, in Quinx, New York: Viking, page 63:
Forms of renown
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | renowns |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | renowns |
| present participle | renowning |
| past participle | renowned |
| past | renowned |
Origin of renown
From Old French renoun (compare with Modern French renom), equivalent to re- + noun.
Words formed from renown
Words that rhyme with renown
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Questions about renown
- What does renown mean?
- Renown means fame; celebrity; wide recognition.
- What is renown in Hindi?
- Renown in Hindi is यश (yaś), वैभव (vaibhav), कीर्ति (kīrti). See Renown meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use renown in a sentence?
- […] Nor envy we / Thy great Renown, nor grudge thy Victory; / 'Tis thine, O King, th' Afflicted to redreſs, / And Fame has fill'd the World with thy Succeſs; […]
- What part of speech is renown?
- Renown can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce renown?
- Renown is pronounced /ɹɪˈnaʊn/ (UK).
- What is the plural of renown?
- The plural of renown is renowns.
Words near renown in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: renown (page history and authors); renown (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); यश (Marathi) (page history and authors); renown (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); renown (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ప్రసిద్ధి (Telugu) (page history and authors); renown (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); renown (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); وڈا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ପ୍ରକାଶ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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