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world-renowned

[ wurld-ri-nound ]

adjective

  1. famous throughout the world.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of world-renowned1

First recorded in 1590–1600

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Example Sentences

In the culinary world, the birth of a world-renowned restaurant can often be followed by relatively short lifespan.

Cuban cigars are world-renowned for their quality and craftsmanship, and Americans have loved this major Cuban export for decades.

His great-grandmother, Thelma Yellin, was a world-renowned cellist.

His iconic Party Animal House, part of the world-renowned Heidelberg Project lays in front of him, burned to its foundation.

Watch Temple, then barely 7, keep perfect sync with world-renowned, lifetime-trained Robinson.

Kirkdale, with its world-renowned cave, to which we have already referred, lies about two miles to the west.

To this class belong the two world-renowned columns of Trajan and of Marcus Aurelius.

Is a world-renowned financier necessarily the person who will have most power to draw out what is good and gracious in a woman?

The forests of Puget Sound are world-renowned for the magnitude and beauty of their hemlocks, cedars, and firs.

There were times when only the gifts of a world-renowned clairvoyant could enable one to say what May wheat was going to do.

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