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fame

/feɪm/ noun B2
  1. One's reputation. (uncountable)
  2. The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of, especially for something positive. (uncountable)

Plural fames

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Here's enough of fame and pillage,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 7 · C1
Joe was painting in the class of the great Magister—you know his fame.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 2 · C1
Bennet on having so fine a family of daughters, said he had heard much of their beauty, but that, in this instance, fame had fallen short of the truth; and added, that he did not doubt her seeing them all in due time well disposed of in marriage.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 71 · B2
Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 21 · B2

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