Renowned vs Renown - What's the difference?
renowned | renown |
Famous, celebrated, or well-known.
Fame; celebrity; wide recognition.
* Dryden
* 1922 , (James Joyce), '' Episode 12, ''The Cyclops
Reports of nobleness or exploits; praise.
* Shakespeare
Renown is a related term of renowned.
As an adjective renowned
is famous, celebrated, or well-known.As a noun renown is
fame; celebrity; wide recognition.renowned
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The movie Three Stars is about world-renowned chefs.
renown
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Noun
(-)- Nor envy we thy great renown , nor grudge thy victory.
- There sleep the mighty dead as in life they slept, warriors and princes of high renown .
- This famous duke of Milan, / Of whom so often I have heard renown .