FAME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fame mean? 

• FAME (noun)
  The noun FAME has 2 senses:

1. the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed

2. favorable public reputation

  Familiarity information: FAME used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

celebrity; fame; renown

Hypernyms ("fame" is a kind of...):

honor; honour; laurels (the state of being honored)

Antonym:

infamy (a state of extreme dishonor)

Derivation:

famous (widely known and esteemed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Favorable public reputation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("fame" is a kind of...):

reputation; repute (the state of being held in high esteem and honor)

Antonym:

infamy (evil fame or public reputation)

Derivation:

famous (widely known and esteemed)

 Context examples 

You may be thrilled with how your reputation glows when Venus makes a rare conjunction to Jupiter in your house of fame and honors on November 24, plus or minus two days.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This indeed would be too great a mortification, if I wrote for fame: but as my sole intention was the public good, I cannot be altogether disappointed.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

"Not for fame, but for love," Martin laughed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Your squires are doubtless worthy the fame of their masters.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A scientist who found fame recovering a meteorite that crashed into Russia in 2013 has found 13 kilograms of meteorite-like material in Iran’s Lut desert.

(Huge Haul of Extraterrestrial Material Recovered from Iranian Desert, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Oh, he has a European fame, has he?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There's fame for him, and he's welcome to it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You wrote with no thoughts of fame and money, and put your heart into it, my daughter.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

To be so near happiness, so near fame, so near the long paragraph in praise of the private theatricals at Ecclesford, the seat of the Right Hon.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

They exploit for fame or cash the work which has been done by their indigent and unknown brethren.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)