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say it: FAY-muhs
famous is an adjective meaning "widely known and esteemed". It is pronounced /ˈfeɪməs/ — FAY-muhs. It carries one recorded sense.
widely known and esteemed
“a famous actor”
“a celebrated musician”
“a famed scientist”
“an illustrious judge”
“a notable historian”
“a renowned painter”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for famous come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.