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–noun

1.	widespread reputation, esp. of a favorable character; renown; public eminence: to seek fame as an opera singer.

2.	common estimation or opinion generally held of a person or thing; reputation.

–verb (used with object)

3.	Archaic. to have or spread the renown of; to make famous.

[Origin: 1175–1225; ME < AF, OF < L fāma talk, public opinion, repute, akin to fārī to speak

]

—Related forms

fameless, adjective

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n.

1. Great renown: a concert violinist of international fame.
2. Public estimation; reputation: a politician of ill fame.
Archaic Rumor.

tr.v. famed, fam·ing, fames

To make renowned or famous.
Archaic To report to be.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin fāma; see bhā-² in Indo-European roots.]

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c.1290, "celebrity, renown," from O.Fr. fame, from L. fama "talk, rumor, report, reputation," from PIE base *bha- "to speak, tell, say" (cf. Skt. bhanati "speaks;" L. fari "to say;" Arm. ban, bay "word, term;" O.C.S. bajati "to talk, tell;" O.E. boian "to boast," ben "prayer, request;" Gk. pheme "talk," phone "voice, sound," phanai "to speak;" O.Ir. bann "law"). The goddess Fama was the personification of rumor in Roman mythology. The L. derivative fabulare was the colloq. word for "speak, talk" since the time of Plautus, whence Sp. hablar.

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fame
noun
1.	the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed [ant: infamy]
2.	favorable public reputation [ant: infamy]

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fame [feim] noun

the quality of being well-known
Example: Her novels brought her fame.

Arabic:	شُهْرَه
Chinese (Simplified):	名声
Chinese (Traditional):	名聲
Czech:	sláva
Danish:	berømmelse
Dutch:	roem
Estonian:	kuulsus
Finnish:	maine
French:	renom(mée)
German:	der Ruhm
Greek:	φήμη
Hungarian:	hír(név)
Icelandic:	frægð
Indonesian:	kemashuran
Italian:	fama

Japanese:	名声
Korean:	명성
Latvian:	slava
Lithuanian:	garbė
Norwegian:	berømmelse
Polish:	sława
Portuguese (Brazil):	fama
Portuguese (Portugal):	fama
Romanian:	renume
Russian:	известность
Slovak:	sláva
Slovenian:	slava
Spanish:	fama
Swedish:	berömmelse, ryktbarhet
Turkish:	ün

See also: famous, famously

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Ban\ (b[a^]n), n. [AS. bann command, edict; akin to D. ban, Icel. bann, Dan. band, OHG. ban, G. bann, a public proclamation, as of interdiction or excommunication, Gr. fa`nai to say, L. fari to speak, Skr. bhan to speak; cf. F. ban, LL. bannum, of G. origin. [root]86. Cf. Abandon, Fame.]

1. A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.

2. (Feudal & Mil.) A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army.

3. pl. Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense).

4. An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription. "Under ban to touch." --Milton.

5. A curse or anathema. "Hecate's ban." --Shak.

6. A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.

Ban of the empire (German Hist.), an imperial interdict by which political rights and privileges, as those of a prince, city, or district, were taken away.

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Blame\ (bl[=a]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blamed (bl[=a]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Blaming.] [OE. blamen, F. bl[^a]mer, OF. blasmer, fr. L. blasphemare to blaspheme, LL. also to blame, fr. Gr. blasfhmei^n to speak ill, to slander, to blaspheme, fr. bla`sfhmos evil speaking, perh, for blapsi`fhmos; bla`psis injury (fr. bla`ptein to injure) + fh`mh a saying, fr. fa`nai to say. Cf. Blaspheme, and see Fame.]

1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.

We have none to blame but ourselves. --Tillotson.

2. To bring reproach upon; to blemish. [Obs.]

She . . . blamed her noble blood. --Spenser.

To blame, to be blamed, or deserving blame; in fault; as, the conductor was to blame for the accident.

You were to blame, I must be plain with you. --Shak.

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