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fame

noun
/feɪm/

Etymology

From Middle English fame, from Old French fame (“celebrity, renown”), itself borrowed from Latin fāma (“talk, rumor, report, reputation”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂-meh₂, from *bʰeh₂- (“to speak, say, tell”). Cognate with Ancient Greek φήμη (phḗmē, “talk”). Related also to Latin for (“speak, say”, verb), Old English bōian (“to boast”), Old English bēn (“prayer, request”), Old English bannan (“to summon, command, proclaim”). More at ban. Displaced native Old English hlīsa.

  1. derived from *bʰéh₂-meh₂✻
  2. derived from fāma — “talk, rumor, report, reputation”
  3. derived from fame — “celebrity, renown”
  4. inherited from fame

Definitions

  1. Something said or reported

    Something said or reported; gossip, rumour.

    • There went a fame in Heav'n that he ere long / Intended to create, and therein plant / A generation, whom his choice regard / Should favour […].

  2. One's reputation.

  3. The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of, especially for something positive.

    • I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited.
    • I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. to make (someone or something) famous

The neighborhood

Derived

15 megabytes of fame, 15 minutes of fame, antifame, claim to fame, cyberfame, disfame, e-fame, enfame, famacide, fame digger, fame-ish, fameless, famesque, fame whore, fame-worthy, fifteen megabytes of fame, fifteen minutes of fame, hall of fame, herostratic fame, horse fame, house of ill fame, ill fame, Instafame, microfame, outfame, semifame, unfame, walk of fame, woman of ill fame

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fame. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01fame02reported03report04repeat05recur06come07arrive

A definitional loop anchored at fame. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at fame

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA