celebrity

Definition

  • noun: the state of being famous or celebrated
  • noun: the state of being 'celebrated'
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: celebration, solemnization, fame

Examples

  • She's become something of a 'local celebrity'. [=someone who everyone in the area knows or recognizes]

  • a 'celebrity' chef [=a chef who is famous]

  • The actress lived a life of 'celebrity'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) And that's all for the number seven bus? There'll be another one along shortly. Now, because I had been a football star and war hero and national celebrity and a shrimping boat captain and a college graduate, the city fathers of Greenbow, Alabama, decided to get together and offered me a fine job. (..)
    1994 Forrest Gump
  • (..) in a million years or something. Somebody said world peace was in our hands, but all I did was play ping-pong. When I got home, I was a national celebrity, famouser even than Captain Kangaroo. Here he is, Forrest Gump. Right here. - Forrest Gump, John Lennon. - Welcome home. In the land of China, (..)
    1994 Forrest Gump