Noun
He achieved great renown for his discoveries.
Her photographs have earned her international renown.
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While some of Na's fellow Korean genre masters, like Bong Joon Ho, have found global renown, for many cinephiles, Na is overdue for the kind of global introduction a Cannes premiere provides.—ABC News, 18 May 2026 Raymond Carver did not share Cheever’s authorial renown at that time—that would come later.—Luis Parrales, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026 Now in the mid-2020s, the pop remix album is not a stopgap or trinket but a steppingstone to wider renown.—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 4 May 2026 Jump Source bring this combination of club-music renown and their pop sensibilities to Fold.—Reid Bg, Pitchfork, 28 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for renown
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Etymology
Noun
Middle English renoun, from Anglo-French renum, renoun, from renomer to report, speak of, from re- + nomer to name, from Latin nominare, from nomin-, nomen name — more at name