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

• IPA(key): /ɹɪˈnaʊn/
• Rhymes: -aʊn

renown (usually uncountable, plural renowns)

1. 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; […]
   • 1985, Lawrence Durrell, chapter 3, in Quinx‎[1], New York: Viking, page 63:
     […] one day local fame would become world renown […]
2. (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;

• renowner
• renownful
• renownless
• unrenown

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 Greek: 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

• Latin: fāma f, celebritas f

• Manx: ard-ennym m

• Naga:
  Khiamniungan Naga: ēpshākō

• Norwegian:
  Nynorsk: namngjetnad m

• 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 (desus.)

• Swedish: ryktbarhet (sv) c, anseende (sv) n, namnkunnighet c

• Tagalog: kabalitaan

• Turkish: şan (tr), şöhret (tr)
  Ottoman Turkish: شان (şan)

• Ukrainian: сла́ва (uk) f (sláva)

• renowned

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

1. (transitive) To make famous.