| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | re·nown |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  r -noun |
| NOUN: | 1. The quality of being widely honored and acclaimed; fame. 2. Obsolete Report; rumor. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English renoun, from Anglo-Norman, from renomer, to make famous : re-, repeatedly (from Latin; see re–) + nomer, to name (from Latin n min re, from nmen, nmin-, name; see n -men- in Appendix I).
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