celebrity

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈlɛbɹɪti/

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 (Wikipedia). [from 19th c.]

   Synonyms: big name, star, (informal) celeb, (informal) sleb, 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 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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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)
• 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／声誉 (zh) (shēngyù), 声誉 (zh) (shēngyù), 名聲／名声 (zh) (míngshēng), 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
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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

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Translations to be checked

• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} pesohor, ^{(please verify)} orang tenar
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} känd person, ^{(please verify)} kändis (sv)

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Spanish

Noun

celebrity m (plural celebritys)

1. celebrity