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celebrity
/səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/
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What does celebrity mean?
noun
- Fame, renown; the state of being famous or talked-about.
- A person who has a high degree of recognition by the general population for his or her success or accomplishments; a famous person.
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noun
- (obsolete) A rite or ceremony.
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IPA pronunciation
/səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/
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The two or three men who had tried to take advantage of her in a deal acquired celebrity by their defeat.
What gave my book the more sudden and general celebrity, was the success of one of its proposed experiments, made by Messrs.
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And couldn’t and wouldn’t have happened in his case if he had been regarded as a celebrity at the time of his death.
Again appointed an exciseman, he was stationed at Lewes in Sussex, where he wrote poetry and acquired some local celebrity as a writer.
During the last years of his life, Siemens advanced from the shade of mere professional celebrity into the strong light of public fame.