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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. Kurt Straif:

    It is difficult to perceive how a strong working group of 32 internationally renowned experts would suddenly not have a balance anymore because of one single expert who had a conflict.

  2. Christopher Crawford:

    This is a world renowned thing.

  3. 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

  4. Patrick MacRoy:

    New York’s prevention program is renowned, so the fact it still has pockets like these shows how challenging this issue is on a national scale.

  5. Pete Ricketts:

    Nebraska has developed social distancing limitations in consultation with world-renowned public health professionals that we have implemented, these limitations also follow federal guidelines outlined by President Trump and the CDC, which give states the flexibility each of us need to wage war against the virus.

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