renown

English

Etymology

From Old French renoun (compare with Modern French renom), equivalent to re- + noun.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈnaʊn/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -aʊn

Noun

renown (usually uncountable, plural renowns)

Fame; celebrity; wide recognition.
- 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, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
  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, […]
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 16:2:
  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: […]
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, book I, page 3:
  […] 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; […]
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
  There sleep the mighty dead as in life they slept, warriors and princes of high renown.
- 1985, Lawrence Durrell, chapter 3, in Quinx‎^[1], New York: Viking, page 63:
  […] one day local fame would become world renown […]
(obsolete) Reports of nobleness or achievements; praise.
- 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 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
  […] She / Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan, / Of whom so often I have heard renown, / But never saw before;

Translations

Fame or wide recognition

Arabic: شُهْرة f (šuhra)
Aromanian: anamã f
Bulgarian: известност (bg) f (izvestnost), слава (bg) f (slava)
Chinese: Mandarin: 名声 (zh) (Míngshēng),声望 (zh) (shēngwàng),声威 (zh) (shēngweī)
Czech: renomé (cs) n
Esperanto: distingo
Finnish: maine (fi), kuuluisuus (fi)
French: renom (fr) m, renommée (fr)
Galician: renome m, sona f
German: Ansehen (de) n, Ruf (de) m, Ruhm (de) m
Gothic: 𐌼𐌴𐍂𐌹𐌸𐌰 f (mēriþa)
Greek: φήμη (el) f (fími), δόξα (el) f (dóxa)
Ancient: κῦδος n (kûdos), κλέος n (kléos)
Hebrew: מוֹנִיטִין (he) m pl (monitin)
Hindi: यश (hi) m (yaś), वैभव (hi) m (vaibhav), कीर्ति (hi) f (kīrti), प्रसिद्धि (hi) f (prasiddhi), ख्याति f (khyāti)
Hungarian: hírnév (hu)
Irish: clú m, alladh m
Italian: rinomanza (it) f, celebrità (it) f, fama (it) f
Khiamniungan Naga: ēpshākō
Latin: fāma f, celebritas f
Manx: ard-ennym m
Ottoman Turkish: شان (şan)
Plautdietsch: Beriemtheit f
Polish: renoma (pl) f
Portuguese: renome (pt) m
Romanian: renume (ro), faimă (ro) f
Russian: изве́стность (ru) f (izvéstnostʹ)
Sanskrit: श्रवस् (sa) n (śravas), यशस् (sa) n (yaśas)
Scottish Gaelic: cliù m
Spanish: renombre (es) m, distinción (es) f, fama (es) f, nombradía (es) f, hao (es) m (disused)
Swedish: ryktbarhet (sv) c, anseende (sv) n, namnkunnighet c
Tagalog: kabalitaan
Turkish: şan (tr), şöhret (tr)
Ukrainian: сла́ва (uk) f (sláva)

Verb

renown (third-person singular simple present renowns, present participle renowning, simple past and past participle renowned)

(transitive) To make famous.