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Definition of Fame

Fame

  1. Public report or rumor.
  2. Report or opinion generally diffused; renown; public estimation; celebrity, either favorable or unfavorable; as, the fame of Washington.
  3. To report widely or honorably.
  4. To make famous or renowned.

Fame Quotations

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
Marilyn Monroe

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck
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Fame Translations

fame in Dutch is faam, gerucht, mare, befaamdheid
fame in Finnish is maine
fame in German is Ruf, Ruhm
fame in Italian is vanto
fame in Latin is gloria, laus
fame in Spanish is hambre, gloria, fama
fame in Swedish is anseende, rykte

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