celebrated
Americanadjective
adjective
Synonym Usage
See famous.
Other Word Forms
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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Example Sentences
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While the area may not have been his favorite, the Brolins certainly made the home their own, tapping celebrated interior design studio, Pierce and Ward, to decorate it with a traditional, baronial aesthetic.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
More than a thousand fans shed tears of grief and recalled fond memories Saturday in Big Bear as they celebrated the life of a beloved reality star.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Walters said the two women have taken "very different paths", but have both "achieved so much and thoroughly deserve to be celebrated".
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
The selection includes the required celebrated high points, plus ample surprises and rarely seen inclusions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The still-very-much-alive writer, James Fenimore Cooper, was the most celebrated man at Griswold’s that evening.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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