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noun 
  1. (rare) What is said or reported; gossip, rumour.
    • 1667, There went a in Heav'n that he ere long / Intended to create, and therein plant / A generation, whom his choice regard / Should favour " John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 651-4
      1. The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of.
verb (fam, es)
  1. (transitive) to make (someone or something) famous
Etymology: From famaLatin, fama "talk, rumor, report, reputation", from (phámÄ) "talk", from Proto-Indo-European
  • bheHâ-mÄ-, from
  • bheHâ- "to speak".


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