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famous
(mass) | famous
- povestný, slávny |
famous
(encz) | famous,famózní Zdeněk Brož |
famous
(encz) | famous,pověstný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
famous
(encz) | famous,proslulý adj: |
famous
(encz) | famous,skvělý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
famous
(encz) | famous,slavný adj: |
famous
(encz) | famous,věhlasný adj: Pino |
famous
(encz) | famous,vynikající adj: Zdeněk Brož |
famous
(encz) | famous,známý adj: |
Famous
(gcide) | Famous \Fa"mous\, a. [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.
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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.
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famous
(wn) | famous
adj 1: 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,
famous, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned] |
famous
(devil) | FAMOUS, adj. 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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famous last words
(encz) | famous last words, |
famous person
(encz) | famous person, n: |
famously
(encz) | famously,známě adv: |
infamous
(encz) | infamous,hanebný adj: Zdeněk Brožinfamous,nechvalně známý adj: Jakub Mišákinfamous,neslavný adj: Zdeněk Brožinfamous,vykřičený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
infamously
(encz) | infamously,vykřičený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
more famous
(encz) | more famous,slavnější adj: Zdeněk Brož |
most famous
(encz) | most famous,nejslavnější adj: Zdeněk Brož |
world-famous
(encz) | world-famous,světoznámý adj: PetrV |
Defamous
(gcide) | Defamous \Def"a*mous\, a.
Defamatory. [Obs.]
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Famous
(gcide) | Famous \Fa"mous\, a. [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.
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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.
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Famoused
(gcide) | Famoused \Fa"moused\, a.
Renowned. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Famously
(gcide) | Famously \Fa"mous*ly\, adv.
In a famous manner; in a distinguished degree; greatly;
splendidly.
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Then this land was famously enriched
With politic grave counsel. --Shak.
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Famousness
(gcide) | Famousness \Fa"mous*ness\, n.
The state of being famous.
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Infamous
(gcide) | Infamous \In"fa*mous\, a. [Pref. in- not + famous: cf. L.
infamis. See Infamy.]
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1. Of very bad report; having a reputation of the worst kind;
held in abhorrence; guilty of something that exposes to
infamy; base; notoriously vile; detestable; as, an
infamous traitor; an infamous perjurer.
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False errant knight, infamous, and forsworn.
--Spenser.
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2. Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation;
scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act;
infamous vices; infamous corruption. --Macaulay.
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3. (Law) Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at
common law, an infamous person can not be a witness.
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4. Having a bad name as being the place where an odious crime
was committed, or as being associated with something
detestable; hence, unlucky; perilous; dangerous. "Infamous
woods." --P. Fletcher.
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Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds. --Milton.
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The piny shade
More infamous by cursed Lycaon made. --Dryden.
Syn: Detestable; odious; scandalous; disgraceful; base; vile;
shameful; ignominious.
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Infamously
(gcide) | Infamously \In"fa*mous*ly\, adv.
In an infamous manner or degree; scandalously; disgracefully;
shamefully.
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The sealed fountain of royal bounty which had been
infamously monopolized and huckstered. --Burke.
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Infamousness
(gcide) | Infamousness \In"fa*mous*ness\, n.
The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
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Unfamous
(gcide) | Unfamous \Unfamous\
See famous. |
famous person
(wn) | famous person
n 1: a widely known person; "he was a baseball celebrity" [syn:
celebrity, famous person] |
famously
(wn) | famously
adv 1: in a manner or to an extent that is well known; "in his
famously anecdotal style"
2: extremely well; "he did splendidly in the exam"; "we got
along famously" [syn: excellently, magnificently,
splendidly, famously] |
infamous
(wn) | infamous
adj 1: known widely and usually unfavorably; "a notorious
gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for
vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold"; [syn: ill-famed,
infamous, notorious] |
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