Famous

Definition: Famous

Famous

Adjective

1. Widely known and esteemed; "a famous actor"; "a celebrated musician"; "a famed scientist"; "an illustrious judge"; "a notable historian"; "a renowned painter".

Date "famous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Etymology: Famous \Fa"mous\, adjective. [Latin expression famosus, from fama fame: compare to the French expression fameux. See Fame.]. (references)

Domain	Definition
Satire	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. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
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The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
FAMOUS	English	French-American mid ocean undersea study	Geography
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Famous

Synonyms: celebrated (adj), famed (adj), far-famed (adj), illustrious (adj), notable (adj), noted (adj), renowned (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Repute	Remarkable; (important); notable, notorious; celebrated, renowned, ion every one's mouth, talked of; famous, famed; far-famed; conspicuous, to the front; foremost; in the front rank, in the ascendant.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Famous

Specialty definitions using "famous": Oaks Famous in Story. (references)

Etymologies containing "famous": Sontag. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Hey Leo, now that you're famous you'll get a lot more sex than anyone in your class (Deep Impact; writing credit: Bruce Joel Rubin; Michael Tolkin) When I get outta here, he's gonna make me famous. (The Green Mile; writing credit: Frank Darabont) He tells people he's named after a gun, but I know he's named after a famous 19th century belly dancer (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) You'll be the most famous bear in the world (Dr. Dolittle 2; writing credit: Larry Levin) You're not going to get famous! (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)
Lyrics	Famous because we program (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC) He was a famous trumpet man from out Chicago way. (Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy; performing artist: Bette Midler) And the famous singer sang and bowed away (Sweet Little Rock'n'Roller; performing artist: Chuck Berry) You're famous now and there's no doubt (FOUND OUT ABOUT YOU; performing artist: Gin Blossoms) Ain't famous people or the parties they throw ((It's Just) The Way That You Love Me; performing artist: Paula Abdul)
Movie/TV Titles	Famous Jury Trials (1971) The Famous Skyscraper (1966) Famous Fights from Madison Square Garden (1952) Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians (1952) Screen Snapshots: Famous Cartoonists (1950)
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Domain	Title
References	S & K Famous Brands, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Famous Dave's of America, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Nathan's Famous, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator (Childhood of Famous Americans Series.) (reference) Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (reference) The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine (reference) The Robin Hood of El Dorado: The Saga of Joaquin Murrieta, Famous Outlaw of California's Age of Gold (Historians of the Frontier and American West Series) (reference) The Literate Horse 2003 Calendar: Featuring Quotations from Famous Equine Enthusiasts (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Famous Monsters Of Filmland (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Famous Comedy Legends Volume 2 (reference) Famous Americans of the 20th Century: Story of Helen Keller (reference) Rich & Famous (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	The Most Famous Opera Duets (reference) Drew's Famous Kids Pizza Party Music (reference) Drew's Famous Polka Party Music (reference) Karaoke: Songs Made Famous By Pop Females (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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	This is one of the more famous images of the Earth from the Apollo program, takenby the Apollo 8 astronauts as they became the first humans to circumnavigate the Moon. Credit: NASA.		Hydrographic survey signal on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima This signal was erected within a short time of the famous American flag raising. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	Major General Ormsby M. Mitchel Famous astronomer - worked with Coast Survey on retainer Primarily involved with development of telegraphic determination of longitude. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Cypress Point - a world famous landmark on 17 Mile Drive. Credit: America's Coastlines.
	The RONALD H. BROWN pulling into Capetown, South Africa at the end of the Aerosols cruise. The flat mountain is Table Mountain, a famous South African landmark. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.		Among the most famous of early satellite weather photographs. This image showed a "square" cloud close to the Oklahoma-Texas border. Within hours this cloud enlarged and spread northward bringing hailstones and tornadoes to central Oklahoma. A TIROS I image. Credit: NOAA in Space.
	The Thunderbirds, the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Team, perform their famous diamond formation as they pass in review. (P.; photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin Gruenwald)..		A beautiful fall day on the famous Salmon River, also known as. Credit: Joel McNee.
	Products of twin-screw processing include fluid glycosides (1) for making rigid polyurethane foam blocks (2), starchencapsulated herbicide strands (3) that can be made into granules (4), semiflexible polyurethane foam with starch filler (5), cationic starch (6), and the famous superabsorbent starch, Super Slurper (7). P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..		Brush and ink drawing of Mallards by Jay N. "Ding" Darling, a famous cartoonist and noted conservationist. The artist was chief of the Biological Survey, a precursor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, from 1934 to 1936. "Ding" conceived the idea of using duck stamps to raise money for the purchase of wetlands. (Deceased) Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page Visit the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Home.
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Author	Quotation
Benjamin Franklin	There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
Fanny Dixwell Holmes	Washington is full of famous men and the women they married when they were young.
Horace	Gloriously perjured, a maiden famous to all time.
Jay Leno	You aren't famous till my mother has heard of you.
Jean Jacques Rousseau	How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
Leigh Hunt	The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
Lord Byron	I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
Miguel de Cervantes	The famous Don Quixote de la Mancha, otherwise called The Knight of the Woeful Figure.
Voltaire	What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Winston S. Churchill	1946	Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	My mother says the orchard was always famous in her younger days
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Trestaillon became famous.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	We had a famous laugh together over it.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		But in 1897, the famous psychiatrist Sigmund Freud disagreed. (references)
		The early Egyptians wrote about it on papyrus, and the famous Greek physician Hippocrates described it in detail. (references)
		In 1885, Joseph Meister was bitten by a rabid dog. His parents went to the famous French biologist Louis Pasteur. (references)
Business		The dominant majority prefers French or other world famous brands. (references)
		Valentin Yudashkin is a famous Russian designer who is more known abroad than in his own country. (references)
		Famous U.S. beauty brands are widely advertised in industry publications and at medical exhibitions. (references)
Economic History	Norway	Norway's most famous writer is the dramatist Henrik Ibsen. (references)
	Japan	Japan's highest mountain is world famous Mt. Fuji (12,385 feet). (references)
	Panama	Indian influences dominate handicrafts such as the famous Kuna textile molas. (references)
Travel	Taiwan	Foreign visitors should not overlook the fragrant teas for which Taiwan is justly famous. (references)
	Moldova	Moldovans are famous for their hospitality and usually offer food and beverages at business meetings. (references)
	Nicaragua	Among the variety of desserts may be found the famous "Tres Leches" made of three kinds of milk and the "Pio Quinto" based on corn and rum. (references)
Women	Philippines	Public attention on domestic violence increased in December, with the suicide of a famous actress whose husband, a former governor and congressman, reportedly had abused her for years. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	JUSTICE, n. A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service. K K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back beyond them to the Cerathians, a small commercial nation inhabiting the peninsula of Smero. In their tongue it was called Klatch, which means "destroyed." The form of the letter was originally precisely that of our H, but the erudite Dr. Snedeker explains that it was altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of the great temple of Jarute by an earthquake, circa 730 B.C. This building was famous for the two lofty columns of its portico, one of which was broken in half by the catastrophe, the other remaining intact. As the earlier form of the letter is supposed to have been suggested by these pillars, so, it is thought by the great antiquary, its later was adopted as a simple and natural -- not to say touching -- means of keeping the calamity ever in the national memory. It is not known if the name of the letter was altered as an additional mnemonic, or if the name was always Klatch and the destruction one of nature's pums. As each theory seems probable enough, I see no objection to believing both -- and Dr. Snedeker arrayed himself on that side of the question.
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Dennis Quaid	Well, whether you're famous or not, I think that's the question, how do you not spoil him. Because you want to give your kid everything. You want him to have it all.
Monica Lewinsky	Probably that I went to Washington with an agenda to seduce the president and then expose that relationship so I could become famous.
Rush Limbaugh	I understand the desire many of you conservatives have to see famous people validate what you think.
Sarah Ferguson	You can have baked beans on toast. You can have steak and kidney pie. You can have fish and chips. What do you mean not famous! Fish and chips. Nothing better. Friday night. Fish and chip night.
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"Famous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.11% of the time. "Famous" is used about 6,536 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	99.11%	6,478	1,495
Noun (proper)	0.86%	56	45,296
Unclassified Items	0.02%	1	339,140
Noun (common)	0.02%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	6,536	N/A

Expressions using "famous": be famous ♦ be famous for ♦ become famous ♦ famous figure ♦ famous person ♦ famous politician ♦ famous tennis player ♦ famous writer ♦ make smb. famous. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "famous": not-so-famous, now-famous, world-famous.
	Containing "famous": donegal's-most-famous-son.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "famous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		beroemd (glorious), befaamd. (various references)

Albanian		famëmadh, me nam, i shkëlqyer (admirable, bright, brilliant, capital, choice, copybook, corking, crack, cracking, Dandy, divine, excellent, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, fine, first rate, flamboyant, gaudy, glazy, glorious, glossy, gorgeous, great, heavenly, immense, marvellous, marvelous, perfect, pink, plum, powerful, prize, pukka, rare, ripping, royal, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, whizzbang, wicked), i mirënjohur (far-famed, prominent, recognized, storied, well known), i famshëm (celebrated, famed, glorious, great, illustrious, noted, outstanding, renowned), i dëgjuar (celebrated, compliant, docile). (various references)

Arabic		‏ممتاز (admirable, banner, best, bonny, boss, brave, choice, clipping, cool, dandy, deluxe, distingue, distinguished, ducky, elegant, excellent, exceptional, exquisite, extra, fancy, fine, first class, first rate, first-string, mighty, noble, of first degree, outstanding, premium, prime, select, splendid, star, stellar, super, superb, superior, swell, thoroughbred, thumbs up, tiptop, top notch, vintage, wizard), ‏معروف (celebrated, famed, familiar, far-famed, kindness, known, recognized, renowned, service, well known), ‏مشهور (celebrated, distinguished, eminent, famed, known, marked, note, noted, renowned, well known, widely known), ‏ذائع الصيت (noted, ranking), ‏المشهور (notorious). (various references)

Bulgarian		чудесен (admirable, beautiful, champion, clipping, cool, corking, delicious, elegant, excellent, fabulous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, great, heavenly, hot, immense, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, neat, nifty, noble, priceless, rattling, regular, ripping, scrumptious, smashing, spanking, splendid, super, terrific, thundering, topping, walloping, wizard, wonderful), знаменит (celebrated, cunning, glorious, gone, great, illustrious, inconceivable, lustrous, prominent, proud, reputed, rousing, terrific), прочут (eminent, famed, name, notable, noted, of repute, splendent, your), известен (certain, distinguished, known, noted, of repute, professed, renowned, reputed, well known). (various references)

Chinese		聞名 (eminent, renowned, well-known), 著名 (celebrated, well-known), 知名 (well known), 着名, 有名 (well-known), 大明鼎鼎 (a grand reputation, renowned). (various references)

Czech		slavný (celebrated, famed, glorious, great, illustrious, noted, renowned, well known). (various references)

Danish		berømt (glorious). (various references)

Dutch		beroemd (glorious), befaamd, alom bekend. (various references)

Esperanto		famkonata, fama, renoma, glora (glorious). (various references)

Faeroese		viðgitin. (various references)

Farsi		معروف (Grand, Historic, Starry, Tyupical), مشهور (Grand, Historic, Loud, Name, Putative, Reputable, Reputed), نامی (Illustrious), عالی (Beautiful, Brave, Capital, Excellent, Exquisite, Fine, Gallant, High, Immense, Knockout, Lofty, Much, Palmary, Remarkable, Ripping, Spiffy, Splendid, Super, Superb, Superlative, Supreme, Swank, Unrivaled), بلنداوازه . (various references)

Finnish		maineikas (celebrated, illustrious, renowned), kuuluisa (celebrated, famed, illustrious, noted, notorious, renowned, well-known). (various references)

French		glorieux, fameux, célèbre (famed, far-famed). (various references)

German		berühmt (celebrated, eminent, famed, glorious, illustrious, illustriously, legendary, noted, prominent, renowned, renownedly), famos (bung-ho, capital, clinking, famously, spiffing, splendid, splendidly, topping, wizard). (various references)

Greek		γνωστός (acquainted with, familiar, well known), ξακουστός (renowned), περιβόητοσ (notorious), περίφημοσ (celebrated, famed, renowned, ripping, vaunted), φημισμένοσ (celebrated, famed, noted), ονομαστόσ (celebrated, famed, well known), διάσημος (illustrious, renowned). (various references)

Hebrew		מפורסם (celebrated, distinguished, eminent, famed, illustrious, noted, publicized, well known), ידוע (certain, familiar, known, proverbial, well known), נודע לתהילה (glorious), נודע (prominent, recognized, well known). (various references)

Hungarian		híres (celebrated, famed, hot, memorable, noted, renowned, reputed, to be renowned). (various references)

Indonesian		termasyhur (famed, illustrious), termashur (famed, illustrious), terkenal (fame, illustrious, outstanding, renowned), mashur (renowned, well-known), kondang (well-known). (various references)

Italian		famoso (celebrated, distinguished, famed, illustrious, renowned, well-know), rinomato (noted, renowned), celebre (celebrated, famed, great, renowned). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		豪い (awful, celebrated, eminent, excellent, great, remarkable, terrible), 名高い (celebrated, well-known), 偉い　 (awful, celebrated, eminent, great, terrible), 偉い (awful, celebrated, eminent, excellent, great, remarkable, terrible). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		なだかい (celebrated, well-known), えらい (awful, celebrated, eminent, excellent, great, remarkable, terrible). (various references)

Korean		고명한. (various references)

Manx		ard-ghooagh (illustrious, reputable). (various references)

Norwegian		berømt. (various references)

Pig Latin		amousfay.(various references)

Polish		sławny. (various references)

Portuguese		famoso (bright, bully, celebrated, famed, far-famed, great, noted, renowned, successful). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian		famoso. (various references)

Romanian		faimos (celebrated, famed, goodly, great, notorious, renowned), vestit (far-famed, noted), slãvit (celebrated, glorified, glorious, renowned), renumit (celebrated, famed, goodly, great, noted, renowned, well known), rãsunãtor (celebrated, clangorous, great, loud, orotund, resonant, resounding, rich, ringing, sonorous, thundering, thunderous, to the echo), mare (acred, adult, ample, big, boundless, brine, broad, bulky, deep, dense, enormous, fat, flux, foam, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hard, heavy, high, howling, huge, hulking, illustrious, immense, important, keen, king size, large, large scale, long, loose, major, man-sized, massy, mighty, open, pond, ponderous, pretty, renowned, rich, roomy, sea, sensible, severe, spacious, stupendous, tall, thick, thundering, vast, violent, voluminous, wide), grozav (a, almighty, atrocious, awful, awfully, bally, beastly, bully, classy, clinking, Dandy, desperate, dreadful, exceedingly, excessively, fell, first rate, formidable, frightful, gee, ghastly, grand, horrible, horrid, immense, immensely, jolly, killing, like blazes, like hell, lovely, mad, magnificent, mightily, nicely, nifty, plush, plushy, proper, ripping, some, stunning, swell, terrible, terribly, terrific, thundering, topping, tremendous, tremendously, uncommonly, vastly, whacking), celebru (celebrated, famed, illustrious, renowned), arhicunoscut (renowned). (various references)

Russian		знаменитый (celebrated, famed, glorious, illustrious, laurelled, notable, noted, renowned). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		znamenit (important, memorable, notable), slavan (glorious, illustrious, noted, renowned), poznat (given, known, notorious, well known), odličan (cool, corking, excellent, fancy, lummy, slap up, stellar, swell, top-hole, topping), čuven (famed, illustrious, noted, renowned, reputed). (various references)

Spanish		famoso (celebrated, famed, far-famed, fashionable, glorious, great, noted, renowned, vintage, well known), conocido (acquaint, acquaintance, arrant, excerpt, famed, familiar, Ken, known, learned, met, noted, recognized, well-known), afamado (celebrated, illustrious). (various references)

Swedish		berömd (celebrated, celibrated, famed, prominent), ryktbar (celebrated, famed, renowned), känd (familiar, known, well-known). (various references)

Thai		มีชื่อเสียง (eminent). (various references)

Turkish		tatminkâr (comfortable, favorable, favourable, grateful, gratifying, satisfactory), tanınmış (conversant, distinguished, famed, illustrious, notable, noted, of note, prestigious, reputable, reputed, well known), meşhur (celebrated, famed, illustrious, noted, of mark, proverbial, renowned, reputed, well known), mükemmel (accomplished, all around, alpha plus, ambrosial, bang up, banner, beyond praise, bully, capital, champion, classic, classical, classy, commanding, complete, consummate, cool, copybook, Dandy, dreamy, elegant, excellent, famously, faultless, fine, finished, first class, great, immense, jolly good, no mean, par excellence, perfect, ripping, scrumptious, slap up, smashing, smooth, solid, sovereign, spiffing, spiffy, splendid, splendiferous, super, superb, superlative, that takes the cake, the dandy, thorough, thoroughgoing, tiptop, to a turn, to the nines, topping, triumphant, unique), ünlü (celebrated, distinguished, eminent, famed, glorious, great, illustrious, noted, of mark, prestigious, prominent, renowned, reputable, reputed, sonant, vowel, well known). (various references)

Turkmen		юanly, meюhur (celebrated). (various references)

Ukrainian		славетний (famed, illustrious, well known), знаменитий (big-name, celebrated, classic, glorious, noted, notified, notorious, outstanding, star, well known). (various references)

Vietnamese		nổi tiếng (eminent, famed, limelight, noted, popular, renowned, well-known), nổi danh, chiến (bang-up, bonzer, elegant, famously, hunky-dory, magnificent, slap-up, smashing, solid, spanking, super). (various references)

Welsh		hynod (notable, noted, remarkable, well-known), hyglod (celebrated, renowned), enwog (noted, renowned), bannog (conspicuous, elevated, high, horned, line, turreted), amlwg (apparent, clear, evident, manifest, obvious, plain, prominent). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	celeberrimas, celeberrimum, celeberrimus, celebre, celebrem, celebrer, celebri, celebrior, clara, clare, clarifica, clarificabant, clarificabit, clarificabo, clarificare, clarificaturus, clarificatus, clarificavi, clarificavit, clarificet, clarificetur, clarissimus, clarius, clarus, famosae, famosissima, famosissimum, famoso, famosus, gloriosa, gloriosam, gloriose, gloriosi, gloriosique, gloriosis, gloriosos, gloriosum, gloriosus, illustris, inclita, inclitam, inclitas, inclite, incliti, inclitis, inclitos, inclitum, inclitus, inclutus inclitus, inlustrem, inlustris, insigne, insignem, insigni, nota, notae, notam, notas, noti, notis, noto, notos, notum, notus, praeclara, praeclaram, praeclaras, praeclarior, praeclaris, praeclaritas, praeclarus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 16
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Eicon de tote desmion epishmon legomenon barabban
Latin	405	Vulgate	Habebat autem tunc vinctum insignem qui dicebatur Barabbas
Old English	990	West Saxon	Hyo hafden þa soðlice ænne stra[n]gneþeof-man gehæftne þe wæs ge-haten barrabas.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And he hadde tho a famous man boundun, that was seid Barrabas.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	He had then a notable presoner called Barrabas.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And they had then an important prisoner, whose name was Barabbas.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 16
Cebuano	Ug niadtong panahona dihay ilang usa ka bantugang binilanggo nga ginganlan si Barrabas.
Chinese	當時、有一個出名的囚犯叫巴拉巴。
Croatian	Tada upravo bijaše u njih poznati uznik zvani Baraba.
Danish	Og de havde dengang en berygtet Fange, som hed Barabbas.
Dutch	En zij hadden toen een welbekenden gevangene, genaamd Bar-abbas.
Finnish	Ja heillä oli silloin kuuluisa vanki, jota sanottiin Barabbaaksi.
French	Ils avaient alors un prisonnier fameux, nommé Barabbas.
German	Er hatte aber zu der Zeit einen Gefangenen, einen sonderlichen vor anderen, der hieß Barabbas.
Haitian Creole	Lè sa a, te gen yon prizonye yo te rele Jezi Barabas. Tout moun te konnen ki moun li ye.
Hungarian	Vala pedig akkor egy nevezetes foglyuk, a kit Barabbásnak hívtak.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Pada waktu itu ada seorang hukuman yang terkenal. Namanya Yesus Barabas.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Tetapi waktu itu ada seorang terpenjara yang termasyhur jahatnya, bernama Barabbas.
Italian	Avevano in quel tempo un prigioniero famoso, detto Barabba.
Korean	그 때 에 바 라 바 라 하 는 유 명 한 죄 수 가 있 는 데
Manx Gaelic	As va oc ec y traa shen ard-phryssoon agh va enmyssit Barabbas.
Maori	I reira ano i a ratou tetahi herehere ingoa nui, ko Parapa te ingoa.
Norwegian	Nu hadde de dengang en vel kjent fange, som hette Barabbas.
Rumanian	Pe atunci aveau un kntemniyat vestit, numit Baraba.
Shuar	Nui sepunam Tunáa shuar Parapás Náartin pujumiayi. Ashí shuar nékarmiayi.
Spanish	Tenían en aquel entonces un preso famoso que se llamaba Barrabás.
Swahili	Wakati huo kulikuwa na mfungwa mmoja, jina lake Baraba.
Swedish	Och man hade då en beryktad fånge, som hette Barabbas.
Uma	Jadi', mpae toe, ria hadua to ratarungku' to ra'inca lia ntodea. Hanga' -na Yesus Barabas.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "famous": famously, famousness, famousnesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "famous": infamous, unfamous. (additional references)
	Words containing "famous": infamously. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Famous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amous, facour, Fadoul, falous, Famau, fameous, fameus, familus, Fammau, famosus, famroost, Famulus, famus, Fanmos, fanous, farmout, farous, Farouz, Fatou, fatous, fembots, Femis, femo, femus, Fenioux, filous, fimous, foamous, Namoos, Yanoush. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "famous" (pronounced fā"mus)
4	-ā" m u s	ignoramus, mandamus, ramus, shamus.
3	-m u s	animus, anonymous, autonomous, blasphemous, dermis, enormous, epidermis, grimace, hippopotamus, humus, infamous, isthmus, litmus, magnanimous, monogamous, polygamous, posthumous, premise, primus, promise, pumice, Shamas, synonymous, thalamus, thermos, unanimous, venomous.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-m-o-s-u"
	-1 letter: foams.
	-2 letters: amus, foam, moas, oafs, sofa, soma, sumo.
	-3 letters: amu, fas, fou, mas, moa, mos, mus, oaf, oms, sau, som, sou, sum.
	-4 letters: am, as, fa, ma, mo, mu, of, om, os, so, um, us.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-m-o-s-u"
	+1 letter: ausform, sfumato.
	+2 letters: ausforms, famously, formulas, infamous, sfumatos, unfamous, wamefous.
	+3 letters: ausformed, factotums, farmhouse, flameouts, fumaroles.
	+4 letters: ausforming, famousness, farmhouses, foraminous, formulates, fumatories, fumigators, infamously.
	+5 letters: cafetoriums, camouflages, fibromatous, filamentous, formularies, formulators, fumigations, microfaunas, omnifarious, sulfonamide.
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Country	Name
USA	Famous Dave's of America, Inc.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
famous quote	9,349	famous saying	379
famous player	3,836	famous love quote	375
famous artist	2,516	famous mathematician	375
famous	2,208	famous painting	366
famous footwear	1,623	famous nude	362
famous quotation	1,062	famous toons	349
famous people	925	famous qoutes	318
barr famous	917	famous painter	310
famous babe	894	famous scientist	287
famous poem	567	famous recipe	253
search famous quotation	558	famous couple	232
famous porn star	534	famous woman	231
lifestyles of the rich and famous	528	life style of the rich and famous	193
famous daves	512	famous player theatres	192
famous birthday	484	famous player theater	192
almost famous	452	famous canadian	171
famous movie quote	444	famous photographer	169
famous speech	425	funny famous quote	165
famous star and strap	419	rich and famous	162
famous poet	409	famous poetry	157
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.


"No comment" by Antonio Redondo Commentary: "Famous people."	"Italy Waterway" by Stephanie Raines Commentary: "This was taken in Venice, Italy. This is the famous "Bridge of Sighs"."
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Emma

Austen, Jane

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Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

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