celebrity
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
celebrity/səˈlebrəti/
▶noun (pl. celebrities)
- 1 a famous person.
- 2 the state of being famous.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘solemn ceremony’): from OFr. celebrite or L. celebritas, from celeber, celebr- ‘frequented or honoured’.
'celebrity' also found in these Oxford entries:
A-list
- autograph
- celeb
- celebutante
- groupie
- it girl
- lionize
- meet-and-greet
- pap
- parvenu
- personality
- sleb
- supermodel
