celebrity

English

Etymology

From Middle English celebritē, from Old French celebrite (compare French célébrité), from Latin celēbritās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈlɛbɹɪti/

• Audio (RP)

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Noun

celebrity (countable and uncountable, 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.]

   Synonyms: big name, distinction, fame, eminence, renown

3. A person who has a high degree of recognition by the general population for his or her success or accomplishments; a famous person. [from 19th c.]

   Synonyms: big name, star, celeb (informal), sleb (informal), luminary, notable, media darling

   • 1897, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in 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.

Derived terms

• celebritydom
• celebrityhood
• celebrityness
• celebrityship
• microcelebrity
• sublebrity

 

Related terms

• celebutard

Translations

famous person

• Arabic: مَشْهُور‎ (mašhūr)
• Bulgarian: знамени́тост (bg) f (znamenítost)
• Catalan: celebritat (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Danish: kendt, kendis (da) c, celebritet c, berømthed (da) c
• Dutch: beroemdheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: famulo
• Finnish: julkisuuden henkilö, (colloquial) julkkis (fi)
• French: célébrité (fr) f, people (fr) m or f
• Galician: celebridade (gl) m or f
• German: berühmte Person f, Prominenter (de) m, Prominente (de) f, (colloquial) Promi (de) m or f, Star (de) m, Berühmtheit (de) f, Celebrity (de) f, Zelebrität (de) f, Bekanntheit (de) f
• Greek: διασημότητα (el) f (diasimótita)
• Hebrew: ידוען‎ (he) m (yadu`án), סלבריטי‎ (he) m (selébriti), סלב‎ (he) m (seléb)
• Hungarian: híresség (hu), sztár (hu)

• Ido: famozo (io)
• Japanese: 有名人 (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 (sereburitī)
• Korean: 유명인 (yumyeong-in)
• Malay: selebriti
• Maori: hautupua
• Norwegian:

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

  Nynorsk: kjendis m, celebritet m, selebritet m

• Polish: celebryta (pl) m, celebrytka (pl) f
• Portuguese: celebridade (pt), colunável m or f
• Russian: знамени́тость (ru) f (znamenítostʹ)
• Spanish: celebridad (es) f
• Swedish: kändis (sv) c, celebritet (sv) c
• Turkish: ünlü (tr)
• Vietnamese: danh nhân

fame

• Bulgarian: изве́стност (bg) f (izvéstnost)
• Catalan: celebritat (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kuuluisuus (fi)
• French: célébrité (fr) f
• German: Berühmtheit (de) f, Bekanntheit (de) f

• Greek: διασημότητα (el) f (diasimótita), φήμη (el) f (fími)
• Ido: famo (io)
• Japanese: 有名人
• Korean: 명성 (ko) (myeongseong)
• Latin: celebritas f
• Maori: mūrau
• Russian: знамени́тость (ru) f (znamenítostʹ), изве́стность (ru) f (izvéstnostʹ), сла́ва (ru) f (sláva)
• Spanish: celebridad (es) f
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

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

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

References

• celebrity at 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.

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Spanish

Noun

celebrity m (plural celebritys)

1. celebrity