Fam vs Fame - What's the difference?
fam | fame |
(informal) Family
(colloquial, hospitality industry) Familiarization.
(slang, AAVE, and, Multicultural London English)
What is said or reported; gossip, rumour.
* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , Book 1, ll. 651-4:
* 2012 , Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex , Penguin 2013, p. 23:
One's reputation.
The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of.
* (William Shakespeare)
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To make (someone or something) famous.
As a proper noun fam
is a local language spoken in the taraba state area of nigeria.As an adjective fame is
(in combination ) having a specified reputation.fam
English
Noun
(en noun)- I'm gonna visit the fam .
- The tourist board organized fam junkets for travel agents.
- She arranged back-to-back fams and took her boyfriend.
- Hey fam how you doin'? / Safe mate, safe.
Anagrams
* English clippings ----fame
English
Noun
(-)- There went a fame in Heav'n that he ere long / Intended to create, and therein plant / A generation, whom his choice regard / Should favour […].
- If the accused could produce a specified number of honest neighbours to swear publicly that the suspicion was unfounded, and if no one else came forward to contradict them convincingly, the charge was dropped: otherwise the common fame was held to be true.
- I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited.