# celebrity
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /sɪˈlɛbɹɪti/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /səˈlɛbɹɪti/

### Noun

celebrity (countable and uncountable, plural celebrities)
* (obsolete) A rite or ceremony. [17th–18th c.]
* (uncountable) Fame, renown; the state of being famous or talked-about. [from 17th c.]
    Synonyms: big name, distinction, fame, eminence, renown
* 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

* anticelebrity
* blogebrity
* celeb
* celebreality
* celebretard
* celebricide
* celebrification
* celebriphilia
* celebritihood
* celebritiness
* celebritize
* celebritydom
* celebrityhood
* celebrityness
* celebrityship
* celebrityville
* celebutante
* celebutard
* celesbian
* celetoid
* cybercelebrity
* delebrity
* demicelebrity
* e-celebrity
* incelebrity
* megacelebrity
* microcelebrity
* micro-celebrity
* minicelebrity
* minor celebrity
* noncelebrity
* nonebrity
* pro-celebrity
* pseudocelebrity
* semicelebrity
* subcelebrity
* sublebrity
* supercelebrity
* weblebrity

#### Related terms

* celeb
* celebrate
* celebration

#### Translations
### References

* “celebrity”, in 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, →OCLC.

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English celebrity.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /θeˈlebɾiti/ [θeˈle.β̞ɾi.t̪i]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /seˈlebɾiti/ [seˈle.β̞ɾi.t̪i]
* Rhymes: -ebɾiti
* Syllabification: ce‧le‧bri‧ty

### Noun

celebrity m or f by sense (plural celebritys)
* 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: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.In reality, the celebrity and businesswoman Kim Kardashian (41 years old) has been dating comedian Pete Davidson (28) for nine months, until they broke up in early August.

#### 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.