world-famous

[ wurld-fey-muhs ]

adjective

1. famous throughout the world:

   a world-famous film.

Word History and Origins

Origin of world-famous¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

Prime real estate on the Mall, a world-famous architect—what could go wrong?

From The Daily Beast

He had made illegal walks before, but this one made him world famous.

From The Daily Beast

She and her girlfriend Arlette pose for Gabor in a photograph that eventually becomes world famous—and the title of the novel.

From The Daily Beast

That clearly was not cause for concern for her or her world-famous mother today.

From The Daily Beast

Eileen Rockefeller is the first woman in her family to write a memoir about her world-famous clan.

From The Daily Beast

Aside from its world-famous minster, York teems with objects and places of curious and archaeological interest.

From Project Gutenberg

The world-famous scientist, Herbert Spencer, says, "The universe had its origin in the unknown source of things."

From Project Gutenberg

It is entered by a vaulted road, where is seen a handsome and a world-famous bell, supposed to have been cast in 1800.

From Project Gutenberg

Are not her hourly intercessions for the souls and bodies of all around incessant, world-famous, mighty to save?

From Project Gutenberg

At last the Merced flows serenely through the world-famous valley, the matchless Yosemite Gorge.

From Project Gutenberg