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Meaning of celebritize | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To transform (a person or concept) into a celebrity; to make famous.

transitive

Examples

“Its failure to politicize celebrity, as well as to celebritize politics, caused the nascent group to founder in its early days.”
“Everyone is required to sit for new headshots, to write exhaustively and shamelessly about themselves, to collect links to their TV clips and old articles, their author pages and personal websites, all this content shoveled onto the heaping pile of the magazine's redesigned website, trying to make personalities out of staff, to celebritize themselves, puffing out their chests to appear more relevant, less shut-down-able.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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