RENOWNED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does renowned mean? 

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

1. widely known and esteemed

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RENOWNED (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 

“All these things may be had for money; and I think, Don Diego, that five thousand crowns is not too much for so renowned a knight.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You were thrown, by some surprising accident, on this shore, renowned for its hospitality, seized immediately, and charged with murder.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Then Doctor Knowall showed the lord where the money was, but did not say who had stolen it, and received from both sides much money in reward, and became a renowned man.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A small, commonly white-colored breed of poultry that is renowned for its ability to produce up to 300 chalk white eggs per year.

(Leghorn Chicken, NCI Thesaurus)

Having a desire to see those ancients who were most renowned for wit and learning, I set apart one day on purpose.

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

Over a period of almost seven years, Cassini’s cameras surveyed the south polar terrain of the small moon, a unique geological basin renowned for its four prominent "tiger stripe” fractures and the geysers of tiny icy particles and water vapor first sighted there nearly 10 years ago. The result of the survey is a map of 101 geysers, each erupting from one of the tiger stripe fractures, and the discovery that individual geysers are coincident with small hot spots. These relationships pointed the way to the geysers’ origin.###!!!###

(101 Geysers on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)

Sir Tristram de Rochefort, Seneschal of Auvergne and Lord of Villefranche, was a fierce and renowned soldier who had grown gray in the English wars.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These people are most excellent mathematicians, and arrived to a great perfection in mechanics, by the countenance and encouragement of the emperor, who is a renowned patron of learning.

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

“Alas! lady,” Alleyne answered, I know well the great honor that you have done me in deeming me worthy to wait upon so renowned a knight, yet I am so conscious of my own weakness that I scarce dare incur duties which I might be so ill-fitted to fulfil.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That these were the ornament and bulwark of the kingdom, worthy followers of their most renowned ancestors, whose honour had been the reward of their virtue, from which their posterity were never once known to degenerate.

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