celebrated
Americanadjective
adjective
Related Words
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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The menu drawings started as a way for him to turn his meals into a piece of art that celebrated L.A. dining culture.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
Now happily re-established at the Castro, the festival intends to stay put, much to the satisfaction of its devotees, who always celebrated the location’s urban centrality and proximity to numerous transit lines.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
It also invites comparison with Giotto’s celebrated fresco of the crucifixion in the transept of the lower church.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
Ukraine's victory was widely celebrated and Eurovision says there was nothing in its 2022 entry that went against the competition's rules.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
Summing it up for their children, she wrote that they both stayed home and “loafed,” then celebrated their anniversary in style.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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