celebrity
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English
Etymology
From Middle English celebritē, from Old French celebrite (compare French célébrité), from Latin celēbritās.
Pronunciation
Noun
celebrity (countable and uncountable, plural celebrities)
- (obsolete) A rite or ceremony.
- (uncountable) Fame, renown; the state of being famous or talked-about.
- Synonyms: big name, distinction, fame, eminence, renown
- A person who has a high degree of recognition by the general population for his or her success or accomplishments; a famous person.
- Synonyms: big name, star, (informal) celeb, (informal) sleb, luminary, notable, media darling
- Hyponym: delebrity
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
Derived terms
- anticelebrity
- blogebrity
- celeb
- celebreality
- celebretard
- celebricide
- celebrification
- celebriphilia
- celebritihood
- celebritiness
- celebritize
- celebritydom
- celebrityhood
- celebrityness
- celebrityship
- celebrityville
- celebutante
- celebutard
- celesbian
- celetoid
- cybercelebrity
- delebrity
- demicelebrity
- e-celebrity
- incelebrity
- megacelebrity
- microcelebrity
- micro-celebrity
- minicelebrity
- minor celebrity
- noncelebrity
- nonebrity
- pro-celebrity
- pseudocelebrity
- semicelebrity
- subcelebrity
- sublebrity
- supercelebrity
- weblebrity
Related terms
Translations
famous person
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fame
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References
- “celebrity”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- celebrity in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- “celebrity”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English celebrity.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θeˈlebɾiti/
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /seˈlebɾiti/
- Rhymes: -ebɾiti
- Syllabification: ce‧le‧bri‧ty
Noun
celebrity m or f by sense (plural celebritys)
- celebrity
- Synonym: celebridad
- 2022 August 18, Enrique Alpañés, “Pete Davison no saldrá en ‘Las Kardashian’: así es como los novios, maridos y exparejas del clan aparecen en el ‘reality’”, in El País:
- En la realidad, la celebrity y empresaria Kim Kardashian (41 años) ha estado saliendo nueve meses con el cómico Pete Davidson (28), hasta que rompieron a principios de agosto.
- In reality, the celebrity and businesswoman Kim Kardashian (41 years old) has been dating comedian Pete Davidson (28) for nine months, until they broke up in early August.
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.