celebrity
noun
1 celebrity
A widely known person:
— He was a baseball celebrity.
synonym: famous person.
Roget 875:
nobility,
rank,
condition,
distinction,
optimacy†,
blood,
pur sang [Fr.],
birth,
high descent,
order;
quality,
gentility;
blue blood of Castile;
ancien regime [Fr.].
high life,
haute monde [Fr.];
upper classes,
upper ten thousand;
the four hundred [U.S.];
elite,
aristocracy,
great folks;
fashionable world
etc.
(fashion)
852.
peer,
peerage;
house of lords,
house of peers;
lords,
lords temporal and spiritual;
noblesse;
noble,
nobleman;
lord,
lordling†;
grandee,
magnifico [Lat.],
hidalgo;
daimio [Jap.],
daimyo [Jap.],
samurai [Jap.],
shizoku [Jap.];
don,
donship†;
aristocrat,
swell,
three-tailed bashaw†;
gentleman,
squire,
squireen†,
patrician,
laureate.
gentry,
gentlefolk;
squirarchy [Slang],
better sort magnates,
primates,
optimates†;
pantisocracy†.
king
etc.
(master)
745;
atheling†;
prince,
duke;
marquis,
marquisate†;
earl,
viscount,
baron,
thane,
banneret†;
baronet,
baronetcy†;
knight,
knighthood;
count,
armiger†,
laird;
signior†,
seignior;
esquire,
boyar,
margrave,
vavasour†;
emir,
ameer†,
scherif†,
sharif,
effendi,
wali;
sahib;
chevalier,
maharaja,
nawab,
palsgrave†,
pasha,
rajah,
waldgrave†.
princess,
begum†,
duchess,
marchioness;
countess
&c.;
lady,
dame;
memsahib;
Do$a,
maharani,
rani.
personage of distinction,
man of distinction,
personage of rank,
man of rank,
personage of mark,
man of mark;
notables,
notabilities;
celebrity,
bigwig,
magnate,
great man,
star,
superstar;
big bug;
big gun,
great gun;
gilded rooster [U.S.];
magni nominis umbra [Lat.]
[Lucan];
every inch a king"
[Lear].
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Dutch: beroemdheid, grootheid, ster, sterretje, superstar
Polish: sława
2 celebrity
The state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed.
synonyms: fame, renown.
Roget 505:
memory,
remembrance;
retention,
retentiveness;
tenacity;
veteris vestigia flammae [Lat.];
tablets of the memory;
readiness.
reminiscence,
recognition,
recollection,
rememoration†;
recurrence,
flashback;
retrospect,
retrospection.
afterthought,
post script,
PS.
suggestion
etc.
(information)
527;
prompting
etc.
v.;
hint,
reminder;
remembrancer†,
flapper;
memorial
etc.
(record)
551;
commemoration
etc.
(celebration)
883.
[written reminder]
note,
memo,
memorandum;
things to be remembered,
token of remembrance,
memento,
souvenir,
keepsake,
relic,
memorabilia.
art of memory,
artificial memory;
memoria technica [Lat.];
mnemonics,
mnemotechnics†;
phrenotypics†;
Mnemosyne.
prompt-book;
crib sheet,
cheat sheet.
retentive memory,
tenacious memory,
photographic memory,
green memory†,
trustworthy memory,
capacious memory,
faithful memory,
correct memory,
exact memory,
ready memory,
prompt memory,
accurate recollection;
perfect memory,
total recall.
celebrity,
fame,
renown,
reputation
etc.
(repute)
873.
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Roget 873:
distinction,
mark,
name,
figure;
repute,
reputation;
good repute,
high repute;
note,
notability,
notoriety,
eclat,
the bubble reputation"
[As You Like It],
vogue,
celebrity;
fame,
famousness;
renown;
popularity,
aura popularis [Lat.];
approbation
etc.
931;
credit,
succes d'estime [Fr.],
prestige,
talk of the town;
name to conjure with.
glory,
honor;
luster
etc.
(light)
420;
illustriousness
etc.
adj..
account,
regard,
respect;
reputableness
etc.
adj.†;
respectability
etc.
(probity)
939;
good name,
good report;
fair name.
dignity;
stateliness
etc.
adj.;
solemnity,
grandeur,
splendor,
nobility,
majesty,
sublimity.
rank,
standing,
brevet rank,
precedence,
pas,
station,
place,
status;
position,
position in society;
order,
degree,
baccalaureate,
locus standi [Lat.],
caste,
condition.
greatness
etc.
adj.;
eminence;
height
etc.
206;
importance
etc.
642;
preeminence,
supereminence;
high mightiness,
primacy;
top of the ladder,
top of the tree.
elevation;
ascent
etc.
305;
superaltation†,
exaltation;
dignification†,
aggrandizement.
dedication,
consecration,
enthronement,
canonization,
celebration,
enshrinement,
glorification.
hero,
man of mark,
great card,
celebrity,
worthy,
lion,
rara avis [Lat.],
notability,
somebody;
classman†;
man of rank
etc.
(nobleman)
875;
pillar of the state,
pillar of the church,
pillar of the community.
chief
etc.
(master)
745;
first fiddle
etc.
(proficient)
700;
cynosure,
mirror;
flower,
pink,
pearl;
paragon
etc.
(perfection)
650;
choice and master spirits of the age;
elite;
star,
sun,
constellation,
galaxy.
ornament,
honor,
feather in one's cap,
halo,
aureole,
nimbus;
halo of glory,
blaze of glory,
blushing honors;
laurels
etc.
(trophy)
733.
memory,
posthumous fame,
niche in the temple of fame;
immortality,
immortal name;
magni nominis umbra [Lat.]
[Lucan].
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Dutch: bekendheid, faam, glorie, roem
Polish: sławność, słynność
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