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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Investors crave stability and visibility on government policy, which is why they celebrated and gilt yields fell on Starmer’s landslide victory two years ago, he added.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026
I looked around and was amazed to see that, unlike the first goal, this one was celebrated by everyone, even some of the English fans nearby.
From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026
“A celebrated tastemaker with an unmatched eye for design, Diane Keaton spent decades transforming homes into works of art, blending timeless architecture with warmth, authenticity, and soul,” the latest listing states.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 22, 2026
The National Guard set up a roadblock complete with an armed Humvee for over a month, just a block away from where Jaimes and so many others celebrated.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2026
After dinner, we celebrated Halloween by telling ghost stories around the fireplace.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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