Crossword clues for world-famous
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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a. renowned in many parts of the world (especially in the Western world)
Usage examples of "world-famous".
Father was sent to relatives in Vienna, to have his gonorrhoea treated and to enrol in the world-famous Academy of Fine Arts.
In their world-famous sexological treatise Sexual Signatures: On Being a Man or a Woman, John Money and Patricia Tucker argued that male oriented pornography is characterized by direct depictions of the opposite sex, while pornography for women tends to route those depictions through the same sex.
Strabismus might possess to enable him to seduce her mother so outrageously, but in mid-July the world-famous scientist, as his brochures described him, came personally to Clay to solicit further funds for the impending plenary session of the Visitors, the one which would determine pretty much how the United States would be governed after the takeover.
HE had not grown used to being a world-famous person, and had been forced to break away from the lionising that was robbing him of all privacy and repose.
He was supposed to be an intimate friend of Mr Mills Happerton, one of the partners in the world-famous commercial house of Hunky and Sons, which dealt in millions.
The Attractions of France One of the main attractions is of course the world-famous Eiffel Tower, which created a lot of controversy when it was erected in 1889 because the builder, Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, had presold it as a condominium.
And so she and her supporters stayed mostly behind the strong walls of London and awaited the huge, strong force of Crusaders said to be on the way by sea from the Mediterranean lands, led by a world-famous condottiere hired on by Rome.
I day-dreamed a little as we drove, about living in New York as a member of a world-famous ballet company.
Nader is a fool, and so is anybody who votes for him in November -- with the obvious exception of professional Republicans who have paid big money to turn poor Ralph into a world-famous Judas Goat.
He writes constantly to his sister, a doctor at last, and also to his brother Michael, a hugely successful and world-famous London clothes designer and couturiere.
The Royal Naval College, once a Royal Hospital for Seamen, shared the little village on the outskirts of London with the Royal Observatory and the world-famous Greenwich Meridian, the zero line of oceanic navigation.
He dashed past Kit Carson's world-famous hotel, past extraordinary gardens with deep streams where colored fish kept to the shadows, trying to avoid becoming a sushi lunch for some Ichthyornis or a Sordes fritcheus diving down from the ceiling.
Or they are merely the kind of people who live in a world-famous radical community-people who prefer big old gracious houses to new tract homes, and well-trafficked tree-lined streets to the more remote and protected mountain roads of the suburbs of California's Contra Costa County.