celebrated
Americanadjective
adjective
Synonym Usage
See famous.
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Etymology
Origin of celebrated
Explanation
If something is celebrated, it's famous. Your town's celebrated restaurant — the one everybody knows and talks about — might be a modest barbecue joint. A celebrated writer is an important, well-known one, like Ernest Hemingway or Maya Angelou. In your family, a celebrated figure might be the cousin who visits every summer and tells the best stories. As long as someone is talked about and revered by a group of people, they're celebrated. This adjective comes from the verb celebrate and its Latin root celebrare, "to sing praises of."
Vocabulary lists containing celebrated
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In 1854, the year after the Mexican bandit’s purported death, John Rollin Ridge wrote “The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murrieta, the Celebrated California Bandit.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
Celebrated annually on the second Monday of October, Columbus Day is a federal holiday that honors the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus.
From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025
Celebrated for the way he had learned to overcome.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2025
Celebrated children's writer Robert Munsch has been approved for medically assisted dying in Canada.
From BBC • Sep. 16, 2025
New York’s newspapers had a field day at Kate’s expense: “One of the Fox Sisters Arrested,” “Neglected Her Children,” “Lamentable Downfall of Once Celebrated Spirit Rapper.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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