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Renown is the fame you have when many people know your name and look up to you for a skill, a piece of work, or a quality. We often say a writer of great renown or a scientist of international renown. Though actually, this is a rather noun. In ordinary talk people say fame or she’s well known for… You do not count it: we do not say “a renown.” And it is not empty celebrity. Renown has a warm, respectful feel — people admire you; they do not merely recognise your face. You will meet it in newspapers that want to sound a little grand, and in history writing.
盛名、名聲
組成From Old French renoun (modern French still has renom). That is re- + noun, and noun here meant “name,” not the grammar word. The old idea is a name spoken again and again — fame.
同家族的字
- renownedthe adjective: famous and admired
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
renownnoun/ɹɪˈnaʊn/
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Fame; celebrity; wide recognition.
- She is a theame of honour and renowne, / A ſpurre to valiant and magnanimous deeds, / Whoſe preſent courage may beate downe our foes, / And fame in time to come canonize us, […]
- And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown: […]
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obsoleteReports of nobleness or achievements; praise.
- […] She / Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan, / Of whom so often I have heard renown, / But never saw before;
renownverb/ɹɪˈnaʊn/
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To make famous.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。