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famous is an adjective meaning "widely known and esteemed". 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.