RENOWN


Meaning of RENOWN in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

achieve

Three women were to achieve national renown in this decade, two of them as sculptors, and one as Christmas-card Laureate.

win

Grown to young manhood, Krishna killed his tyrant uncle and won universal renown .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Speakers of international renown will attend the conference.

The general's victories won him renown throughout the country.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And away he went, crashing through their bed to victory and renown .

He was jealous of Voltaire's renown , but his judgment of him, not entirely favourable, was sound enough.

Its pecan pie enjoys some renown in these here parts as well.

Meanwhile Malekith had begun his many journeys and won renown .

Molyneux built on Richmond's earlier successes and became a figure of public renown .

She begins her career under the tutelage of her father, another artist of some talent but not much renown .

That means either scouring the nation for a candidate of lesser renown , or hiring from within.

There was Lord Scarman of liberal renown , but also Lord Devlin.

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