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noun

Celebrity n. (pl. celebrities)

Celebration; solemnization. (Obs.) "The celebrity of the marriage."

The state or condition of being celebrated; fame; renown; as, the celebrity of Washington. "An event of great celebrity in the history of astronomy."

A person of distinction or renown; usually in the plural; as, he is one of the celebrities of the place.

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Etymology of 'Celebrity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... literature; and met with no less success in the society into which he was launched by the father who at first could afford to bear the expense of the young man's extravagance. Perhaps Emile's precocious celebrity and the good figure that he made strengthened the bonds of his friendship with the Countess. Perhaps Mme. de Montcornet, with the Russian blood in her veins (her mother was the daughter of the Princess Scherbelloff), ...

— The Collection of Antiquities • Honore de Balzac

... lured thither by the prevalent Kabbalistic and Messianic vagaries. True literature gained little from such extremists. The only work produced by them that can be admitted to have literary qualities is Isaiah Hurwitz's "The Two Tables of the Testimony," even at this day enjoying celebrity. It is a sort of cyclopaedia of Jewish learning, compiled and expounded from a ...

— Jewish Literature and Other Essays • Gustav Karpeles

... he was, had attained to celebrity in Italy (as well as in Germany) under the title of Primas, appears also from the following passage of a treatise by Thomas of Capua[44] on the Art of Writing: Dictaminum vero tria sunt genera auctoribus ...

— Wine, Women, and Song - Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse • Various

... last speculator to whom he sold himself for a tour was, I believe, Mr. Wilder, of New York City, who realised a large profit by investing in lecturing stock, and who was always ready to engage a circus, a wild-beast show, or a lecturing celebrity. ...

— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 1 • Charles Farrar Browne

... heard of the Peacock At Home, the Butterfly's Ball, and Grasshopper's Feast, Elephant's Ball, and many others of equal celebrity, and having been themselves of late much introduced into the assemblies of Ton, grew so vain as to wish to have a gala of their own. They were aware of their want of the organs of speech, but knowing they had plenty ...

— Forgotten Tales of Long Ago • E. V. Lucas

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