Celebrity

Definitions

1. A rite or ceremony.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. Fame, renown; the state of being famous or talked-about.
   uncountable
3. A person who has a high degree of recognition by the general population for his or her success or accomplishments; a famous person.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“"What do you put⟳ in your paper?" I asked, […] "Oh, news," said he, "and dull articles, and things about Celebrities. If you know⟳ any Celebrities, now?" Noël asked him what Celebrities were. "Oh, the Queen and the Princes, and people with titles, and people who write⟳, or sing⟳, or act—or do something clever or wicked."”

“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.”

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