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celebrity

[ suh-leb-ri-tee ]

/ səˈlɛb rɪ ti /

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noun, plural ce·leb·ri·ties for 1.

a famous or well-known person.

fame; renown.

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Origin of celebrity

1350–1400; Middle English <Latin celebritās multitude, fame, festal celebration, equivalent to celebr- (stem of celeber) often repeated, famous + -itās-ity

SYNONYMS FOR celebrity

2 distinction, note, eminence, stardom.

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OTHER WORDS FROM celebrity

non·ce·leb·ri·ty, noun, plural non·ce·leb·ri·ties.

Words nearby celebrity

celebrant, celebrate, celebrated, celebration, Celebrex, celebrity, celebutante, celecoxib, C. elegans, celeriac, celerity

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Example sentences from the Web for celebrity

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To do so is to deify a celebrity for being what we need them to be, while willfully ignoring who they really are.
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Whatever the excuse, in 2008 we were all subjected to Celebrity Apprentice.
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Her first celebrity beef began when Snoop Dogg started Instagramming some pretty vile things about her, seemingly unprovoked.
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But these pictures attain no celebrity because the public admire them, for it is not to the public that the judgment is intrusted.
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For her own part she felt that she could not face Keith Rickman and his celebrity.
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She sketched for him as she had sketched for Tanqueray the horrors brought on her by her celebrity.
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It had hurt her; but Stephen's celebrity was a dressing to her wound.
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To them Spain owes the culture of silk; they gave to Xeres and Malaga their celebrity for wine.
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British Dictionary definitions for celebrity

celebrity

/ (sɪˈlɛbrɪtɪ) /

noun plural -ties

a famous persona show-business celebrity

fame or notoriety

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