celebrated
Americanadjective
adjective
Related Words
See famous.
Other Word Forms
- celebratedness noun
- uncelebrated adjective
- well-celebrated adjective
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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Rich tributes continue to pour in for Raghu Rai, India's most celebrated photojournalist, following his death at the age of 83.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026
This year’s White House Correspondents’ Assn. dinner was the first time that Trump and Melania Trump had attended the event, which has long celebrated 1st Amendment freedoms and the Washington press corps.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026
Local groups that oppose ICE’s efforts celebrated the ruling and pledged to continue applying pressure until there is a permanent ruling ensuring the building will never operate as a detention center.
From Slate • Apr. 27, 2026
In recent high-level exchanges, Pyongyang and Moscow have celebrated the connection of their first road bridge, the start of construction of a "friendship hospital", and the inauguration of a North Korean military memorial complex.
From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026
In Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev celebrated his sixty-seventh birthday.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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