Usually means: Widely recognized and often celebrated.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. famous: Merriam-Webster
  2. famous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. famous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. famous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. famous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Famous, famous: Wordnik
  7. famous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. famous: Wiktionary
  9. famous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. famous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. famous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. FAMOUS: Dictionary.com
  13. famous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. famous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Famous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. famous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. famous: Rhymezone
  19. famous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. famous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Famous: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. famous: FreeDictionary.org
  23. famous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. famous: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. famous: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. famous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Famous (disambiguation), famous: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Famous (disambiguation), famous: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. FAMOUS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. famous: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Famous: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Well known.
adjective:  In the public eye.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To make famous; to bring renown to.

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