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Definition of Celebrity
1. Noun. A widely known person. "He was a baseball celebrity"
Specialized synonyms: Immortal, Lion, Social Lion, Guiding Light, Leading Light, Luminary, Notability, Notable, Personality, Toast
Generic synonyms: Important Person, Influential Person, Personage
2. Noun. The state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed.
Generic synonyms: Honor, Honour, Laurels
Derivative terms: Famous
Antonyms: Infamy
Definition of Celebrity
1. n. Celebration; solemnization.
Definition of Celebrity
1. Noun. (obsolete) A rite or ceremony. (defdate 17th-18th c.) ¹
2. Noun. Fame, renown; the state of being famous or talked-about. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹
3. Noun. A person who has a high degree of recognition by the general population; a famous person. (defdate from 19th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Celebrity
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Celebrity
Literary usage of Celebrity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1845)
"Hyde's _ misfortunes lead to his celebrity. His residence in Jersey. Writes his
History of the Rebellion. Now comes that period of Clarendon's life which to ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1903)
"which has attained a wide celebrity from ÍU use by professional readers and
reciters, and which first brought the author into notice; together with "Gray ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1896)
"... about two miles from Troughend, and there his enthusiasm for science was
stimulated by a local scientific celebrity, James Thompson. ..."
4. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1889)
"... but he mixes this point strangely with the question of the celebrity of the
city as evinced by the writings of old geographers—with a view to scoring a ..."
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