celebrity

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈlɛbɹɪti/

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 for his or her success or accomplishments; a famous person (Wikipedia). [from 19th c.]
   • 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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• celebritydom
• celebrityhood
• celebrityness
• celebrityship

Related terms

• celebutard

Translations

a famous person

• 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)

• Dutch: beroemdheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: famulo
• Finnish: julkisuuden henkilö, (colloquial) julkkis (fi)
• French: célébrité (fr) f
• Galician: celebridade (gl) m, 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 (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: 명성 (ko) (myeongseong)
• 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), colunável m, 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: известност (bg) f (znamenítost)
• Catalan: celebritat (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Finnish: kuuluisuus (fi)
• French: célébrité (fr) f
• German: Berühmtheit (de) f
• Greek: διασημότητα (el) f (diasimótita), φήμη (el) f (fími)

• Ido: famo (io)
• Japanese: 有名人
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• 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

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Spanish

Noun

celebrity m (plural celebritys)

1. celebrity