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world-famous

world-fa·mous
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [wurld fey-muh s]
    • /wɜrld ˈfeɪ məs/
    • /wɜːld ˈfeɪməs/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [wurld fey-muh s]
    • /wɜrld ˈfeɪ məs/

Definitions of world-famous word

  • adjective world-famous famous throughout the world: a world-famous film. 1
  • adjective world-famous Someone or something that is world-famous is known about by people all over the world. 0
  • adjective world-famous known around the world 0

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Origin of world-famous

First appearance:

before 1830
One of the 36% newest English words
First recorded in 1830-40

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Parts of speech for World-famous

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

world-famous popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 32% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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