- well known for being bad
- a notorious criminal
- a location made notorious by battles between local gangs
- notorious for something/for doing something The country is notorious for its appalling prison conditions.
- notorious as something The bar has become notorious as a meeting-place for drug dealers.
- an area which is notorious as a centre for drug trafficking
Oxford Collocations DictionaryNotorious is used with these nouns:- case
- crime
- criminal
- …
Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the sense ‘generally known’): from medieval Latin notorius (from Latin notus ‘known’) + -ous.Definitions on the go
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