different between prominence vs renown

English

Etymology

From obsolete French prominence (compare proéminence), from Latin prominentia.

Noun

prominence (countable and uncountable, plural prominences)

1. The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.

   • “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

2. Relative importance.
3. A bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
4. (topography) Autonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Old French renon, from re- + non (“name”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???na?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Noun

renown (usually uncountable, plural renowns)

1. Fame; celebrity; wide recognition.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 12, The Cyclops

     There sleep the mighty dead as in life they slept, warriors and princes of high renown.

   • 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx, New York: Viking, Chapter Three, p. 63,^[1]

     [...] one day local fame would become world renown [...]

2. (obsolete) Reports of nobleness or achievements; praise.
   • c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1,^[2]

     [...] She

     Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan,

     Of whom so often I have heard renown,

     But never saw before;

Translations

See also

• renowned

Verb

renown (third-person singular simple present renowns, present participle renowning, simple past and past participle renowned)

1. (transitive) To make famous.