Honors vs Fame - What's the difference?
honors | fame |
(honor)
Excelled in academics.
What is said or reported; gossip, rumour.
* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , Book 1, ll. 651-4:
* 2012 , Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex , Penguin 2013, p. 23:
One's reputation.
The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of.
* (William Shakespeare)
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To make (someone or something) famous.
As nouns the difference between honors and fame
is that honors is plural of lang=en while fame is what is said or reported; gossip, rumour.As verbs the difference between honors and fame
is that honors is third-person singular of honor while fame is to make (someone or something) famous.As an adjective honors
is excelled in academics.honors
English
Alternative forms
* honoursNoun
(head)Verb
(head)Adjective
(head)- I'm taking honors math this year.
- Your kid may be an honors student, but you're still an idiot.
fame
English
Noun
(-)- There went a fame in Heav'n that he ere long / Intended to create, and therein plant / A generation, whom his choice regard / Should favour […].
- If the accused could produce a specified number of honest neighbours to swear publicly that the suspicion was unfounded, and if no one else came forward to contradict them convincingly, the charge was dropped: otherwise the common fame was held to be true.
- I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited.