Definitions for fames

fames fame

Spelling: [feym]
IPA: /feɪm/

Fames is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in fames (aefms).

Definitions for fames

noun

  1. widespread reputation, especially of a favorable character; renown; public eminence:
  2. common estimation or opinion generally held of a person or thing; reputation.

verb (used with object)

  1. Archaic. to have or spread the renown of; to make famous.

Origin of fames

1175-1225; Middle English Anglo-French, Old French Latin fāma talk, public opinion, repute, akin to fārī to speak

Examples for fames

Of your gracious fauor I despaire not, for I am not altogether fames outcast.

The only other entry, until the Tudor period, is fames magna in Hibernia in 1410.

The poet nameth Cyrus and Æneas no other way than to show what men of their fames, fortunes, and estates should do.

It is that side of its duty which presents to us its characters who have written their names and their fames in fire.

The dropping fire which had been exchanged between their partisans kept their names and fames before the public.

A species of fames canina is to be met with amongst schoolboys, which affects the juveniles most when most in health.

As if fames were the relics of seditions past; but they are no less, indeed, the preludes of seditions to come.

Word Value for fames
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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