Word Meanings - FAME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Public report or rumor. The fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house. Gen. xlv. 16. 2. Report or opinion generally diffused; renown; public estimation; celebrity, either favorable or unfavorable; as, the fame of Washington. I find thou art

Additional info about word: FAME

1. Public report or rumor. The fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house. Gen. xlv. 16. 2. Report or opinion generally diffused; renown; public estimation; celebrity, either favorable or unfavorable; as, the fame of Washington. I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited. Shak. Syn. -- Notoriety; celebrity; renown; reputation.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FAME)

• Celebrity
• Fame
• honor
• glory
• star
• reputation
• distinction
• renown
• notability
• eminence
• notoriety
• Glory
• Brightness
• radiance
• effulgence
• fame
• celebrity
• pomp
• luster
• magnificence
• splendor
• Honor
• Respect
• reverence
• nobility
• dignity
• high-mindedness
• spirit
• selfrespect
• grandeur
• esteem
• Memory
• Remembrance
• reminiscence
• perpetuation
• recollection
• retention
• retrospect
• Name
• Designation
• cognomination
• appellation
• title
• authority
• appointment
• stead
• representation

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FAME)

• Misname
• miscall
• misdesignate
• misindicate
• hint
• suggest
• shadow
• adumbrate
• Overlook
• disregard
• dishonor
• despise
• contemn

Related words: (words related to FAME)

• TITLELESS
  Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• TITLED
  Having or bearing a title.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• STEAD
  OS. stad, stedi, OHG. stat, G. statt, stätte, Icel. staedhr, Dan. sted, Sw. stad, Goth. sta, and E. stand. *163. See Stand, and cf. 1. Place, or spot, in general. Chaucer. Fly, therefore, fly this fearful stead anon. Spenser. 2. Place or room
• HIGH-MINDEDNESS
  The quality of being highminded; nobleness; magnanimity.
• RENOWNED
  Famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king. "Some renowned metropolis with glistering spires." Milton. These were the renouwned of the congregation. Num. i. 61.
• TITLER
  A large truncated cone of refined sugar.
• ESTEEM
  1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• EMINENCE
  1. That which is eminent or lofty; a high ground or place; a height. Without either eminences or cavities. Dryden. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. Burke. 2. An elevated condition among men; a place or station above men in
• SPIRITUALIZE
  To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize
• SUGGESTION
  Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party. (more info) 1. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea. 2. That which is suggested;
• NOBILITY
  1. The quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence. Though she hated Amphialus, yet the nobility of her courage prevailed over it. Sir P. Sidney. They thought it great their sovereign to
• SPIRITUOSITY
  The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• DISPIRITED
  Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n.
• MISESTEEM
  Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson.