celebrity

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈlɛbɹɪti/

• Audio (RP)

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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. [from 19th c.]

   Synonyms: big name, star, (informal) celeb, (informal) sleb, luminary, notable, media darling

   Hyponym: delebrity

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     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

• celeb
• celebretard
• celebritydom
• celebrityhood
• celebrityness
• celebrityship
• celebutard
• delebrity
• e-celebrity
• micro-celebrity
• microcelebrity
• minor celebrity
• pro-celebrity
• sublebrity

 

Related terms

• celeb
• celebrate
• celebration

 

Translations

famous person

• Arabic: نَجْم‎ m (najm), نَجْمَة‎ f (najma)
• Belarusian: знакамі́тасць f (znakamítascʹ), зо́рка (be) f (zórka) (star)
• Bulgarian: знамени́тост (bg) f (znamenítost), звезда́ (bg) f (zvezdá) (star)
• Catalan: celebritat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 名人 (zh) (míngrén), 明星 (zh) (míngxīng), 名士 (zh) (míngshì), 名流 (zh) (míngliú)

• Czech: celebrita (cs) f, hvězda (cs) f (star)
• Danish: kendt, kendis (da) c, celebritet c, berømthed (da) c
• Dutch: beroemdheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: famulo
• Estonian: prominent (et)
• 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 (de) f, Zelebrität (de) f, Bekanntheit (de) f, berühmte Persönlichkeit f
• Greek: διασημότητα (el) f (diasimótita)
• Hebrew: יְדוּעָן‎ (he) m (yedu'án), סֶלֶבְּרִיטִי‎ (he) m (selébriti), סֶלֶבּ‎ (he) m (seléb)
• Hungarian: híresség (hu), sztár (hu)
• Ido: famozo (io)
• Italian: celebrità (it) f
• 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: 유명인(有名人) (yumyeong'in), 실레브리티 (sillebeuriti)
• Latvian: slavenība f
• Lithuanian: įžymybė f
• 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

• Persian: سلبریتی‎ (selebriti), ستاره‎ (fa) (setâre) (star)
• Polish: celebryta (pl) m, celebrytka (pl) f, gwiazda (pl) f, osobowość medialna f
• Portuguese: celebridade (pt), colunável m or f
• Russian: знамени́тость (ru) f (znamenítostʹ), селе́брити (ru) f (selébriti) (colloquial or slang), селе́ба (ru) f (seléba) (slang), звезда́ (ru) f (zvezdá) (star)
• Slovak: celebrita f, hviezda (sk) f (star)
• Spanish: celebridad (es) f, celebrity (es)
• Swedish: kändis (sv) c, celebritet (sv) c
• Turkish: ünlü (tr)
• Ukrainian: знамени́тість f (znamenýtistʹ), зі́рка (uk) f (zírka) (star)
• Vietnamese: danh nhân
• Zazaki: namdar (diq) c

fame

• Bulgarian: изве́стност (bg) f (izvéstnost)
• Catalan: celebritat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聲譽／声誉 (zh) (shēngyù), 名聲／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
• Greek: διασημότητα (el) f (diasimótita), φήμη (el) f (fími)
• Ido: famo (io)
• Japanese: 名声 (ja) (めいせい, meisei)
• Korean: 명성(名聲) (ko) (myeongseong)
• Latin: celebritas f
• 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. 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 (sv)

References

• celebrity at OneLook Dictionary Search
• celebrity in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• celebrity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English celebrity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θeˈlebɾiti/ [θeˈle.β̞ɾi.t̪i]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /seˈlebɾiti/ [seˈle.β̞ɾi.t̪i]
• Rhymes: -ebɾiti

Noun

celebrity m or f (plural celebritys)

1. celebrity

   Synonym: celebridad

   • 2022 August 18, Enrique Alpañés, “Pete Davison no saldrá en ‘Las Kardashian’: así es como los novios, maridos y exparejas del clan aparecen en el ‘reality’”, in El País‎^[1]:

     En la realidad, la celebrity y empresaria Kim Kardashian (41 años) ha estado saliendo nueve meses con el cómico Pete Davidson (28), hasta que rompieron a principios de agosto.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.