Fame vs Fameless - What's the difference?
fame | fameless |
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)
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.}}
To make (someone or something) famous.
(chiefly, obsolete) Without fame.
* {{quote-book, year=1834, author=, title=The Pilgrims Of The Rhine, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Sluggish are the spirits and base the lot of the men I am ordained to lead through a dull life to a fameless grave. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1915, author=William Crosbie Hunter, title=Evening Round Up, chapter=, edition=
, passage=And in the midst of better conditions and brighter prospects the shameless, brainless, fameless bipeds pollute the atmosphere, poison hearts and plant discontent. }}
As a noun fame
is what is said or reported; gossip, rumour.As a verb fame
is to make (someone or something) famous.As an adjective fameless is
without fame.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.
Derived terms
* hall of fame * walk of fameVerb
(fam)Anagrams
* ----fameless
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Adjective
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