Synonyms word for famous

What is another word for Famous?

• renowned

  known, knowledge

• celebrated

  characteristic, knowledge

• illustrious

  knowledge, prominent

• noted

  familiar, knowledge

• famed

  well known, characteristic

• prominent

  characteristic, familiar

• notable

  knowledge, prominent

• notorious

  familiar, legendary

• great

  illustrious, distinguished

• eminent

  prominent, characteristic

• distinguished

  characteristic, prominent

• glorious

  illustrious, splendid

• well-known

  familiar, prominent

• excellent

  superb, well-known

• splendid

  illustrious, legendary

• leading

  renowned, legendary

• outstanding

  superb, legendary

• remarkable

  illustrious, well-known

• legendary

  illustrious, celebrated

• noble

  distinguished, legendary

• 

  grand

• important

  respected, distinguished

• acclaimed

  well-known

• popular

  well known

• conspicuous

  important, well-known

• exalted

• known

  familiar

• esteemed

  renowned, respected

• brilliant

  splendid

• honored

  respected

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How is the word famous different from other adjectives like it?

Some common synonyms of famous are celebrated, distinguished, eminent, illustrious, noted, notorious, and renowned. While all these words mean «known far and wide,» famous implies little more than the fact of being, sometimes briefly, widely and popularly known.

When is it sensible to use celebrated instead of famous?

While in some cases nearly identical to famous, celebrated implies notice and attention especially in print.

When could distinguished be used to replace famous?

The words distinguished and famous are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, distinguished implies acknowledged excellence or superiority.

Where would eminent be a reasonable alternative to famous?

The synonyms eminent and famous are sometimes interchangeable, but eminent implies even greater prominence for outstanding quality or character.

When might illustrious be a better fit than famous?

While the synonyms illustrious and famous are close in meaning, illustrious stresses enduring honor and glory attached to a deed or person.

When would noted be a good substitute for famous?

Although the words noted and famous have much in common, noted suggests well-deserved public attention.

How do notorious and famous relate to one another?

Notorious frequently adds to famous an implication of questionableness or evil.

When is renowned a more appropriate choice than famous?

In some situations, the words renowned and famous are roughly equivalent. However, renowned implies more glory and acclamation.

And many a powerful one who wanted to run well with the people, hath harnessed in front of his horses—a donkey, a famous wise man.

And now, ye famous wise ones, I would have you finally throw off entirely the skin of the lion!

In the wilderness have ever dwelt the conscientious, the free spirits, as lords of the wilderness; but in the cities dwell the well-foddered, famous wise ones—the draught-beasts.

When he found himself about to die, which happened in 1643, just after the death of Louis XIII., he called to him his son, a young cook of great promise, and with tears in his eyes, he recommended him to preserve carefully the secret of the macaroni, to Frenchify his name, and at length, when the political horizon should be cleared from the clouds which obscured it — this was practiced then as in our day, to order of the nearest smith a handsome sign, upon which a famous painter, whom he named, should design two queens’ portraits, with these words as a legend: «To The Medici.»

Perhaps he had seen the famous pictures of the bath-room.

His joy was at its height on that day when called upon to share the secret of Cropoli the younger, and to paint the famous sign.

«I am sorry to contradict my famous friend and colleague,» said the Owl, «but as far as I’m concerned, I think that when the dead weep, it means they do not want to die.»

This place they left not long after the middle of the night, and traveling fast through the tender dawning of the summer day, when the dews lay shining on the meadows and faint mists hung in the dales, when the birds sang their sweetest and the cobwebs beneath the hedges glimmered like fairy cloth of silver, they came at last to the towers and walls of famous London Town, while the morn was still young and all golden toward the east.

A gay sight were famous Finsbury Fields on that bright and sunny morning of lusty summertime.

At this, all that stood around whispered to one another, wondering what it all meant, and what three men the Queen was about to set against those famous archers of the King’s guard.

But it is wrong to make up stories and then pretend that they were written by some one else more famous than yourself.

Sir Hugh Calverley and Sir Robert Knolles had not yet returned from their raid into the marches of the Navarre, so that the English party were deprived of two of their most famous lances.

On the other hand, a deafening burst of cheering greeted the rival herald, who, advancing from the other end of the lists, rolled forth the well-known titles of the five famous warriors who had accepted the defiance.

Neither did the great fabulist lack posthumous honors; for a statue was erected to his memory at Athens, the work of Lysippus, one of the most famous of Greek sculptors.

He is charged on the one hand with having had before him a copy of Babrias (to whom we shall have occasion to refer at greater length in the end of this Preface), and to have had the bad taste «to transpose,» or to turn his poetical version into prose: and he is asserted, on the other hand, never to have seen the Fables of Aesop at all, but to have himself invented and made the fables which he palmed off under the name of the famous Greek fabulist.