Synonyms for celebrity
səˈlɛb rɪ ticelebri·ty

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1. celebrity

   Fame is the widely disseminated report of a person's character, deeds, or abilities, and is oftenest used in the favorable sense. Reputation and repute are more limited than fame, and may be either good or bad. Notoriety is evil repute or a dishonorable counterfeit of fame. Eminence and distinction may result from rank, station, or character. Celebrity is limited in range; we speak of local celebrity, or world-wide fame. Fame in its best sense may be defined as the applause of numbers; renown, as such applause worthily won; we speak of the conqueror's fame, the patriot's renown. Glory and honor are of good import; honor may be given for qualities or acts that should not win it, but it is always given as something good and worthy; we can speak of an evil fame, but not of evil honor; glory has a more exalted and often a sacred sense.

   Synonyms:
   credit, distinction, eminence, fame, glory, honor, laurels, notoriety, renown, reputation, repute

   Antonyms:
   contempt, contumely, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, disrepute, humiliation, ignominy, infamy, oblivion, obscurity, shame

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1. celebrity

   Synonyms:
   fame, honor, glory, star, reputation, distinction, renown, notability, eminence, notoriety

   Antonyms:
   obscurity, meanness, ingloriousness, ignominy, disgrace, contempt, cipher, nobody

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1. celebrity, famous personnoun

   a widely known person

   "he was a baseball celebrity"

   Synonyms:
   famous person, fame, renown

2. fame, celebrity, renownnoun

   the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed

   Synonyms:
   famous person, fame, renown

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1. • Honor
   • Important Person

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1. celebritynoun

   Synonyms:
   fame, renown, glory, honor, credit, reputation, eminence, distinction, repute

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1. celebritynoun

   Synonyms:
   fame, renown, eminence

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1. List of paraphrases for "celebrity":

   fame, celebrities, star, stars, mashhour

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1. Loren Weisman:

   A single experience can make someone a celebrity, but it does not make them an authority.

2. Moby, quoted on CNN.com, March 2005:

   I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.

3. Samuel Johnson:

   When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

4. Ezra Levant:

   Khadr’s transformation from a racist, sexist, Jew-hating terrorist, into a celebrity and folk hero is the result of nearly 10 years of combined propaganda by leftist journalists and lawyers – with Khadr as the willing participant, they have managed to transform a pathological murderer into a ‘ victim, ’ providing Al Qaeda with a great PR victory.

5. Janet Comenos:

   Authenticity is one of the key tenants, if not the core tenants to endorsement, if consumers are mistrusting of the authentic relationship between the celebrity and the brand and they don't believe it, then they're not going to engage with it and they're not going to make a purchase or take further action.