Definition of "famed" []

• Having great fame. See Synonyms at noted. (adjective)

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• "Like the many references to fans as "patrons" — a CBS announcer, Jack Whitaker, was famously forced off Masters coverage decades ago by calling them "a mob" — and Nantz anticipating the "coronation" in "famed Butler Cabin.""
• "The plan sets preservation guidelines for the "historic core" of buildings and open spaces that make up 10.6 acres within famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright's 491-acre north Scottsdale campus."
• "Mr. Chairman and Members of the Empire Club, -- The honour of addressing your Club at one of these luncheons, internationally famed, is an honour that I very highly appreciate, and what I wish to say this afternoon will represent to you certain sincere convictions with which I may not expect you all to coincide, but the earnestness and honesty of which you will be, I know, prepared to admit."