 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
famous
adjective: widely known and esteemed; "a famous actor"; "a celebrated
musician"; "a famed scientist"; "an illustrious judge";
"a notable historian"; "a renowned painter" [syn: {celebrated},
{famed}, {far-famed}, {illustrious}, {notable}, {noted},
{renowned}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Famous \Fa"mous\, adjective [L. famosus, fr. fama fame: cf. F. fameux.
See {Fame}.]
Celebrated in fame or public report; renowned; mach talked
of; distinguished in story; -- used in either a good or a bad
sense, chiefly the former; often followed by for; as, famous
for erudition, for eloquence, for military skill; a famous
pirate.
Famous for a scolding tongue. --Shak.
Syn: Noted; remarkable; signal; conspicuous; celebrated;
renowned; illustrious; eminent; transcendent; excellent.
Usage: {Famous}, {Renowned}, {Illustrious}. Famous is applied
to a person or thing widely spoken of as
extraordinary; renowned is applied to those who are
named again and again with honor; illustrious, to
those who have dazzled the world by the splendor of
their deeds or their virtues. See {Distinguished}.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
99 Moby Thesaurus words for "famous":
acclaimed, advantageous, august, auspicious, beneficial,
benevolent, bon, bonny, braw, bueno, capital, celebrated, cogent,
commendable, conspicuous, dandy, distinguished, elegant, elevated,
eminent, estimable, exalted, excellent, expedient, fabled, fair,
famed, far-famed, far-heard, favorable, fine, first, first-class,
first-string, glorious, godlike, good, goodly, grand, great,
healthy, held in esteem, helpful, heroic, high, honorable, honored,
illustrious, kind, laudable, lauded, legendary, lionized, lofty,
magnanimous, magnificent, majestic, marked, much acclaimed,
mythical, nice, noble, notable, noted, notorious, of mark, of note,
pleasant, popular, praiseworthy, prestigious, profitable,
prominent, rate, redoubtable, regal, renowned, reputable,
respectable, royal, skillful, soaring, sound, splendid, sublime,
superb, superior, talked-about, talked-of, top, top-notch,
towering, useful, valid, venerable, very good, virtuous,
well-known, well-thought-of
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
FAMOUS, adjective Conspicuously miserable.
Done to a turn on the iron, behold
Him who to be famous aspired.
Content? Well, his grill has a plating of gold,
And his twistings are greatly admired.
Hassan Brubuddy
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