hall of fame

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   a building containing trophies honoring famous people

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   NarrowerNational Baseball Hall of Fame

Questions about hall of fame

What does hall of fame mean?

hall of fame means "a building containing trophies honoring famous people".

Is hall of fame a common word?

hall of fame is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.