celebrity

English

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Etymology

From French célébrité.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /sᵻˈlɛbɹᵻti/

Noun

celebrity (plural celebrities)

1. (obsolete) A rite or ceremony. [17th-18th c.]
2. (uncountable) Fame, renown; the state of being famous or talked-about. [from 17th c.]
3. A person who has a high degree of recognition by the general population; a famous person (Wikipedia). [from 19th c.]
   • 1897, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, The Celebrity^[1]:

     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.

Translations

a famous person

• Bulgarian: знаменитост (bg) (znamenítost) f
• Catalan: celebritat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 名人 (cmn) (míngrén), 明星 (cmn) (míngxīng), 名士 (cmn) (míngshì), 名流 (cmn) (míngliú)

• Dutch: beroemdheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: famulo (eo)
• Finnish: (colloquial) julkkis (fi)
• French: célébrité (fr) f
• German: Berühmtheit (de) f

• Hebrew: ידוען (he) (yadu`án) m, סלבריטי (he) (selébriti) m, סלב (he) (seléb) m
• Hungarian: híresség (hu), sztár (hu)
• Japanese: 有名人 (ja) (ゆうめいじん, yūmeijin), 名士 (ja) (めいし, meishi), セレブ (ja) (serebu), セレブリティー (ja) (sereburitī)
• Maori: hautupua (mi)
• Portuguese: celebridade (pt)
• Russian: знаменитость (ru) (znamenítost’) f
• Spanish: celebridad (es) f
• Swedish: kändis (sv) c, celebritet (sv) c
• Turkish: ünlü (tr)

fame

• Bulgarian: известност (bg) (znamenítost) f
• Catalan: celebritat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聲譽 (cmn), 声誉 (cmn) (shēngyù), 名聲 (cmn), 名声 (cmn) (míngshēng)

• French: célébrité (fr) f

• German: Berühmtheit (de) f
• Maori: mūrau (mi)
• Russian: знаменитость (ru) (znamenítost’) f, известность (ru) (izvéstnost’) f, слава (ru) (sláva) f
• Spanish: celebridad (es) f

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Translations to be checked

• Indonesian: pesohor, orang tenar

• Swedish: känd person, kändis

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