English
Etymology
From Middle English famous, from Anglo-Norman famous, from Latin fāmōsus. Displaced native Old English hlīsful.
Pronunciation
Adjective
famous (comparative more famous, superlative most famous)
- Well known.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:famous
c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:By this my ſword that conquer’d Perſea,
Thy fall ſhall make me famous through the world:
- In the public eye.
Some people are only famous within their city.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
well known
- Albanian: famshëm (sq), famëmadh (sq)
- Arabic: مَشْهُور (ar) m (mašhūr), شَهِير (ar) m (šahīr)
- Egyptian Arabic: مشهور (mašhūr)
- Armenian: հայտնի (hy) (haytni)
- Azerbaijani: məşhur (az), tanınmış
- Belarusian: вядо́мы (vjadómy)
- Bengali: বিখ্যাত (bikkhatô), মশহুর (môśhur), নামজাদা (bn) (namjada)
- Bulgarian: прочу́т (bg) (pročút), изве́стен (bg) (izvésten)
- Catalan: famós (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 出名 (ceot1 meng2)
- Mandarin: 有名 (zh) (yǒumíng), 著名 (zh) (zhùmíng)
- Czech: slavný (cs), proslulý (cs), věhlasný
- Danish: berømt (da)
- Dutch: beroemd (nl)
- Egyptian: (rḫḫy)
- Esperanto: fama (eo)
- Estonian: kuulus
- Faroese: víðagitin
- Finnish: kuuluisa (fi)
- French: fameux (fr), célèbre (fr)
- Galician: de sona, famoso, afamado
- Georgian: სახელოვანი (saxelovani), ცნობილი (ka) (cnobili), სახელგანთქმული (saxelgantkmuli), სახელმოხვეჭილი (saxelmoxveč̣ili)
- German: bekannt (de), berühmt (de)
- Greek: διάσημος (el) (diásimos), περίφημος (el) (perífimos)
- Ancient: κλεινός (kleinós), κλειτός (kleitós), ὀνομαστός (onomastós)
- Greenlandic: tusaamasaq
- Hawaiian: kaulana
- Hebrew: מפורסם (mefursam)
- Hindi: मशहूर (hi) (maśhūr), नामदार (hi) (nāmdār)
- Hungarian: híres (hu)
- Icelandic: frægur (is)
- Ido: famoza (io)
- Indonesian: terkenal (id), termahsyur
- Interlingua: famose
- Irish: cáiliúil
- Italian: famoso (it)
- Japanese: 有名 (ja) (ゆうめい, yūmei), 高名 (ja) (こうめい, kōmei), 名高い (ja) (なだかい, nadakai)
- Kazakh: әйгілі (äigılı), мәшһүр (mäşhür)
- Khmer: ល្បី (km) (lbəy)
- Korean: 유명한 (yumyeonghan)
- Latin: fāmōsus, inclitus, nobilis (la), notus (la)
- Latvian: slavens
- Lithuanian: garsus, įžymus, gerai žinomas
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- Luxembourgish: berühmt
- Macedonian: познат (poznat)
- Malay: masyhur
- Malayalam: പ്രശസ്ത (ml) (praśasta), പ്രശസ്തമായ (praśastamāya), പേരുകേട്ട (pērukēṭṭa)
- Manchu: ᡤᡝᠪᡠᠩᡤᡝ (gebungge)
- Mansaka: bantogan
- Maori: rongonui
- Mirandese: afamado, famoso
- Mongolian: алдарт (mn) (aldart)
- Nepali: प्रसिद्ध (prasiddha)
- Norman: fanmeux
- Northern Sami: beakkálmas
- Norwegian: berømt (no)
- Old English: hlīsful
- Old Norse: ágætr
- Persian: نامدار (fa) (nâmdâr), مشهور (fa) (mašhur), معروف (fa) (ma'ruf)
- Plautdietsch: beriemt, huachberiemt
- Polish: sławny (pl), słynny (pl)
- Portuguese: famoso (pt), afamado (pt), célebre (pt)
- Romanian: celebru (ro), faimos (ro)
- Romansch: famus
- Russian: изве́стный (ru) (izvéstnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: cliùiteach, ainmeil
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: познат
- Roman: poznat (sh)
- Slovak: slávny, známy (sk)
- Slovene: slaven
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: znaty
- Upper Sorbian: sławny
- Spanish: famoso (es), célebre (es), afamado (es)
- Swedish: känd (sv), berömd (sv)
- Tagalog: kilala (tl)
- Thai: มีชื่อเสียง, โด่งดัง (th)
- Tibetan: སྐད་གྲགས (skad grags)
- Turkish: meşhur (tr), ünlü (tr)
- Ukrainian: відо́мий (vidómyj)
- Vietnamese: nổi tiếng (vi) (𬈗㗂), nổi danh (vi) (𬈗名)
- Welsh: enwog (cy)
- West Frisian: ferneamde
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: mevantug
- Yakut: ааттаах (aattaax)
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Verb
famous (third-person singular simple present famouses, present participle famousing, simple past and past participle famoused)
- (transitive, obsolete) To make famous; to bring renown to.