Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A famous person.
- n. Renown; fame.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The condition of being celebrated; fame; renown; distinction: as, the celebrity of George Washington; the celebrity of Homer or of the Iliad.
- n. A celebrated person or (very rarely) thing: as, a celebrity at the bar or in the church; what are the celebrities of this town?
- n. Celebration.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Celebration; solemnization.
- n. The state or condition of being celebrated; fame; renown.
- n. A person of distinction or renown; -- usually in the plural.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a widely known person
- n. the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed
Etymologies
- From French célébrité. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English celebrite, fame, from Old French, from Latin celebritās, from celeber, celebr-, famous. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The term "celebrity memoir" has gotten such a bad name now, but there used to be a little bit of an art form to it.”
“No one will care if a certain celebrity is pregnant or if someone is doing drugs.”
“Now, even in the best of times Celebrity Jeopardy is pushing it with the use of the term celebrity, but I must admit to an impure thrill at the thought of Ari Fleischer's return to television.”
“COOPER: Suzanne, you mentioned the term celebrity for Bo Derek and the bachelors.”
“Despite sharing their name with the term celebrity journalists apply to anyone who's ever been in television or film, the band Stars has carved out a large following.”
“Despite sharing their name with the term celebrity journalists apply to anyone who's ever been in television or film, the band”
“But every once in a while there comes along someone far more deserving of the title celebrity, who just happens to get started on the Internet.”
“I am a big fan when a celebrity is able to poke fun at themselves.”
“But the shy aviator matters to "The Guest List" because his celebrity is a measure of "a Manhattan-centric culture's redirecting its admiration from wastrels like the Astors to the achieving parvenu.”
“Though he hesitates to use the word celebrity, Mr. Robertson says that using his profile to raise awareness for a charity is all part of giving back.”
The Wall Street Journal: Yankees Use Their Profile to Aid Charities
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘celebrity’.
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POL - people in power
daredevil, tzar, king, boss, master, commander, chief, kingpin, top banana, bigwig, big cheese, big wheel and 452 more...
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Dramatic Nouns
Nouns to be used as descriptions while writing stories
night owl, early bird, hedonist, ascetic, derelict, explorer, radical, pity friend, cupid, truant, caretaker, guardian and 120 more...
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®emovies
Movies or TV shows where the titles are also common words, generally one-word titles.
lost, alien, bug, elephant, siege, gladiator, flock, captivity, piano, roots, freaks, moonstruck and 269 more...
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
vertigo, serendipity, casablanca, psycho, jaws, fantasia, stagecoach, network, rocky, giant, platoon, unforgiven and 285 more...
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Film
jidaigeki, samurai, Kurosawa, action, comedy, drama, Bergman, Buñuel, surreal, rotoscope, melodrama, Cinerama and 333 more...
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I speak Warhol
Words that make me think of Andy Warhol, for whatever reason.
pop, gee, factory, superstar, screen test, silver, silkscreen, Sleep, soup, Marilyn Monroe, speed, voyeur and 23 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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The Spectacle
DISTRACT, STARE, CONSUME
(repeat)gongoozler, television, sporting events, blockbuster, alienation, situationist, technocapitalism, media extravaganza, sex scandal, hypnotic behavior, fantastic visions, prime time and 164 more...
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A Dalliance of Dahlias
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Rose words by mollusque
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Tulip Names I
Tulip Names II: You Know My Name
A Myriad of Iriia la mode, ace o' hearts, acclimation, adhesion, admirable, adorable you, advance, affirmed, after glow, agricola, alabama melody, alabaster queen and 1152 more...
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words I have an irrational and burnin...
celesbian, crouch, perez hilton, slop, lotus boob, anal fissure, eat out, crotch, sewage, backwash, vomit, pus and 100 more...
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-ity City
enmity, moiety, nemiety, propinquity, levity, lenity, probity, concinnity, serendipity, perspicacity, perspicuity, acuity and 55 more...
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Hip to Be Hip
posh, cachet, chic, glam, moxie, cool, popular, hip, congenial, personality, glamour, glitz and 1 more...
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The O.U.P. Junior Dictionary Neophytes
Counterpart to the Death Row list.
blog, broadband, mp3 player, voicemail, attachment, database, export, chatroom, bullet point, cut and paste, analogue, celebrity and 40 more...
Tweets
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