celebrity

English

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Etymology

Borrowing from Old French celebrite (compare French célébrité), from Latin celēbritās.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /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.

Synonyms

• (fame): big name, distinction, eminence, renown
• (person who has a high degree of recognition): big name, star, (informal) celeb, luminary, notable (noun)

Related terms

• celebutard

Translations

a famous person

• Bulgarian: знамени́тост (bg) f (znamenítost)
• Catalan: celebritat f
• Chinese:

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

• Dutch: beroemdheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: famulo
• Finnish: julkisuuden henkilö, (colloquial) julkkis (fi)
• French: célébrité (fr) f
• German: berühmte Person f, Prominenter (de) m, Prominente (de) f, (colloquial) Promi (de) m, f, Star (de) m, Berühmtheit (de) f, Celebrity f, Zelebrität (de) f
• Greek: διασημότητα (el) f (diasimótita)
• Hebrew: ידוען m (yadu`án), סלבריטי m (selébriti), סלב m (seléb)

• Hungarian: híresség (hu), sztár (hu)
• Japanese: 有名人 (ゆうめいじん, yūmeijin), 名士 (めいし, meishi), セレブ (ja) (serebu), セレブリティー (sereburitī)
• Maori: hautupua
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: berømthet (no) m, f, kjendis (no) m, celebritet m, selebritet m

  Nynorsk: kjendis m, celebritet m, selebritet m

• Portuguese: celebridade (pt)
• Russian: знамени́тость (ru) f (znamenítostʹ)
• Spanish: celebridad (es) f
• Swedish: kändis (sv) c, celebritet (sv) c
• Turkish: ünlü (tr)

fame

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

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

• French: célébrité (fr) f
• German: Berühmtheit (de) f

• Greek: διασημότητα (el) f (diasimótita), φήμη (el) f (fími)
• Maori: mūrau
• Russian: знамени́тость (ru) f (znamenítostʹ), изве́стность (ru) f (izvéstnostʹ), сла́ва (ru) f (sláva)
• Spanish: celebridad (es) f

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• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} pesohor, ^{(please verify)} orang tenar

• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} känd person, ^{(please verify)} kändis