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celebrity

[ suh-leb-ri-tee ]

noun

, plural ce·leb·ri·ties
  1. a famous or well-known person.
  2. fame; renown.

    Synonyms: stardom, eminence, note, distinction



celebrity

/ sɪˈlɛbrɪtɪ /

noun

  1. a famous person

    a show-business celebrity

  2. fame or notoriety
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • nonce·lebri·ty noun plural noncelebrities
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Word History and Origins

Origin of celebrity1

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin celebritās multitude, fame, festal celebration, equivalent to celebr- (stem of celeber ) often repeated, famous + -itās -ity
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Example Sentences

In the last year, her fusion exercise class has attracted a cult following and become de rigueur among the celebrity set.

What celebrity has started to talk about his or her eating disorder?

To do so is to deify a celebrity for being what we need them to be, while willfully ignoring who they really are.

To make it work almost everything else about these shows has to seem factual which is why many look like a weird Celebrity Sims.

Whatever the excuse, in 2008 we were all subjected to Celebrity Apprentice.

Baroness Schopenhauer died at Jena; a woman of talent and celebrity, and author of various works, which were collected in 24 vols.

She cultivated a witty habit of speech, the society of cabinet ministers, and her chef was a celebrity.

His school friends valued his musical talents, but were far from suspecting him to be a future celebrity.

I fancy their celebrity in early days can hardly parallel this, but I do not vouch for the statistics.

For Honorius Hatchard, in the early years of the nineteenth century, had enjoyed a modest celebrity.

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