FAMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does famed mean? 

• FAMED (adjective)
  The adjective FAMED has 1 sense:

1. widely known and esteemed

  Familiarity information: FAMED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Widely known and esteemed

Synonyms:

celebrated; famed; famous; far-famed; illustrious; notable; noted; renowned

Context example:

a renowned painter

Similar:

known (apprehended with certainty)

 Context examples 

“There is a goodly hostel near the west gate, which is famed for the stewing of spiced pullets,” remarked Sir Oliver.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Think well of your dress, Roddy, so as to do your uncle credit, for it is the thing for which he is himself most famed.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At length we saw the numerous steeples of London, St. Paul’s towering above all, and the Tower famed in English history.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A long time ago there lived a king who was famed for his wisdom through all the land.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The scenes in its neighbourhood, Charmouth, with its high grounds and extensive sweeps of country, and still more, its sweet, retired bay, backed by dark cliffs, where fragments of low rock among the sands, make it the happiest spot for watching the flow of the tide, for sitting in unwearied contemplation; the woody varieties of the cheerful village of Up Lyme; and, above all, Pinny, with its green chasms between romantic rocks, where the scattered forest trees and orchards of luxuriant growth, declare that many a generation must have passed away since the first partial falling of the cliff prepared the ground for such a state, where a scene so wonderful and so lovely is exhibited, as may more than equal any of the resembling scenes of the far-famed Isle of Wight: these places must be visited, and visited again, to make the worth of Lyme understood.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Come in with me, and let your squires come also, that my sweet spouse, the Lady Tiphaine, may say that she hath seen so famed and gentle a knight.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How say you, Sir William, will you not try the smack of the famed Spanish swine, though we have but the brook water to wash it down?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So, too, did the Greeks, and divers other ancient peoples who were famed for their learning.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Is this a tongue to be used within the walls of an old and well-famed monastery? But grace and learning have ever gone hand in hand, and when one is lost it is needless to look for the other.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Go back to your master and give him greeting from Sir Nigel Loring of Twynham Castle, telling him that I had hoped to make his better acquaintance this night, and that, if I have disordered his tent, it was but in my eagerness to know so famed and courteous a knight.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)