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rɪˈnaʊndrenowned

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. celebrated, famed, far-famed, famous, illustrious, notable, noted, renownedadjective

    widely known and esteemed

    "a famous actor"; "a celebrated musician"; "a famed scientist"; "an illustrious judge"; "a notable historian"; "a renowned painter"

Wiktionary

  1. renownedadjective

    Famous, celebrated, or well-known.

    a world-renowned flautist

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Renownedparticip. adj.

    Famous; celebrated; eminent; famed.

    Etymology: from renown.

    These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes, heads of thousands. Num. i. 16.

    That thrice renowned and learned French king, finding Petrarch’s tomb without any inscription, wrote one himself; saying, shame it was, that he who sung his mistress’s praise seven years before her death, should twelve years want an epitaph. Henry Peacham, on Poetry.

    The rest were long to tell, though far renown’d. John Milton.

    Of all the cities in Romanian lands,
    The chief and most renown’d Ravenna stands,
    Adorn’d in ancient times with arms and arts. Dryden.

    Ilva,
    An isle renown’d for steel and unexhausted mines. Dryden.

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  1. renowned

    Renowned refers to being widely acclaimed or highly honored for a particular skill, talent, or achievement. It describes someone or something that is well-known, recognized, and respected by many people.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Renownedadjective

    famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of renowned in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of renowned in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of renowned in a Sentence

  1. Curtis Lassiter:

    We're peanut butter and jelly-quote by Curtis Lassiter to describe his incredibly close bond with daughter Renowned Global Activist Greshun De Bouse, and to describe how neither was good without the other. #curtislassiter #activistdebouse

  2. Georgia Tech freshman Rishab Jain:

    As the competition progressed on and everyone played their games, we didn’t see it as a cutthroat competition, but more like a bunch of friends playing this world-renowned game show, i’m pretty happy that I get to stay friends with these people.

  3. Executive James Sutherland:

    Our thanks go to Channel Nine, who for more than 40 years has broadcast international cricket at a world-renowned standard – and in so doing has done more to promote our sport than any organisation in Australian cricket history.

  4. Vincent Bollore on Sunday:

    How can one imagine that communication expenses of a few hundred thousands euros, accounted for in all transparency by a global and renowned communication group, could have determined investments of hundreds of million euros in port operations....

  5. Thomas Boothby:

    Tardigrades are a group of microscopic animals that are renowned for their ability to survive a number of extreme stresses, some of the things that tardigrades can survive include being dried out, being frozen and being heated up past the boiling point of water. They can survive thousands of times as much radiation as we can and they can go for days or weeks with little or no oxygen.

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