fameとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /feɪm/
• 韻: -eɪm

名詞

fame (usually uncountable, 複数形 fames)

1. (now rare) What is said or reported; gossip, rumour.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 651-4:

     There went a fame in Heav'n that he ere long / Intended to create, and therein plant / A generation, whom his choice regard / Should favour […].

   • 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin 2013, page 23:

     If the accused could produce a specified number of honest neighbours to swear publicly that the suspicion was unfounded, and if no one else came forward to contradict them convincingly, the charge was dropped: otherwise the common fame was held to be true.

2. One's reputation.
3. The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of.

   Synonym: famousness

   Antonyms: obscurity, unknownness

   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:

     I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

     I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.

派生語

• hall of fame
• walk of fame

動詞

fame (三人称単数 現在形 fames, 現在分詞 faming, 過去形および過去分詞形 famed)

1. (transitive) to make (someone または something) famous

関連する語

• famed
• famous

参考

• renown

アナグラム

• FEMA, FMEA, mafe

Latin

名詞

famē

1. ablative singular of famēs

参照

• fame in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “fame”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]