Crossword-Solution: FAME 4 letters, 221 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Fame	n.	Public report or rumor.
Fame	n.	Report or opinion generally diffused; renown; public estimation; celebrity, either favorable or unfavorable; as, the fame of Washington.
Fame	v. t.	To report widely or honorably.
Fame	v. t.	To make famous or renowned.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
FAME	anagram	FEMA

We have 221 clues for the answer “FAME”

Clue	Answers
"A fickle food upon a shifting plate": Dickinson	1 answer
"A fickle food upon a shifting plate," according to Emily Dickinson	1 answer
"A fickle food," per Emily Dickinson	1 answer
"A fickle food," to Emily Dickinson	1 answer
"An empty bubble."	1 answer
"Careers" category	1 answer
"I would give all my ____ for a pot of ale":"Henry V"	1 answer
"If you come to ___ not understanding who you are, it will define who you are": Oprah Winfrey	1 answer
"Out Here on My Own" musical	1 answer
"Proof that the people are gullible," according to Ralph Waldo Emerson	1 answer
What celebrity status brings, in one word	1 answer
"The perfume of heroic deeds," to Socrates	1 answer
"The shadow of Virtue": Seneca	1 answer
"___ can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them": Bowie	1 answer
"___ is fickle and I know it": Marilyn Monroe	1 answer
"___ is the spur . . . "	1 answer
"___ is the spur . . . ": Milton	1 answer
"___ is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day": Gabriel García Márquez	1 answer
'80s movie/song/TV series	1 answer
15-minute pursuit?	1 answer
1975 #1 hit for David Bowie	1 answer
1975 David Bowie chart-topper	1 answer
1975 David Bowie hit	1 answer
1975 chart-topper by David Bowie	1 answer
1980 Irene Cara film	1 answer
1980 Irene Cara movie	1 answer
1980 teen musical	1 answer
Notoriety or renown	1 answer
Alan Parker film	1 answer
Anonymity's opposite	1 answer
Antonym of anonymity	1 answer
Aspiring star's goal	1 answer
Baseball's Hall of ___, at Cooperstown, N. Y.	1 answer
Big splash aftermath?	1 answer
Category in the game Careers	1 answer
Celeb's accomplishment	1 answer
Celeb's achievement	1 answer
Celeb's possession	1 answer
Celebrities have it	1 answer
Celebrity's acquirement	1 answer
Celebs acquire it	1 answer
Central theme of "A Star Is Born"	1 answer
Chaucer's "The House of ___"	1 answer
Clout chaser's goal	1 answer
David Bowie hit	1 answer
David Bowie's first #1 single in the U.S.	1 answer
David Bowie's first U.S. #1 hit song	1 answer
Debbie Allen TV series	1 answer
Debbie allen show	1 answer
Emily Dickinson called it "a fickle food"	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TEEAR

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with FAME (5)

Space may produce new Worlds; whereof so rife 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 equal to the Sons of Heaven: Thither, if but to prie, shall be perhaps Our first eruption, thither or elsewhere: For this Infernal Pit shall never hold Caelestial Spirits in Bondage, nor th’ Abysse Long under darkness cover.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

One day an old hound said to him: “Why do you make such an exhibition of yourself? That bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but on the contrary a mark of disgrace, a public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill mannered dog.” Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

Who of all our townsmen gazed not on his fame with envious eyes? Now, in what a sea of troubles sunk and overwhelmed he lies! Therefore wait to see life’s ending ere thou count one mortal blest; Wait till free from pain and sorrow he has gained his final rest.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

Borne on such queer vehicle of fame, a knowledge of my existence, so far as a name conveys it, was carried where it had never been before, and, I hope, will never go again.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

The hackish point of view on Pascal was probably best summed up by a devastating (and, in its deadpan way, screamingly funny) 1981 paper by Brian Kernighan (of {K&R} fame) entitled "Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language", which was turned down by the technical journals but circulated widely via photocopies.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

Quotes with FAME (3)

All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.

Marcus Aurelius Meditations

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

Socrates

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau Walden

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 338 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).