[ UK /səlˈɛbɹɪti/ ]
[ US /səˈɫɛbɹɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. a widely known person
    he was a baseball celebrity
  2. the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed

How To Use celebrity In A Sentence

  • Commissioned in 1963 to make a film about America's first successful quintuplet birth, Leacock and Joyce Chopra captured the quints' mother's anxiety at her sudden celebrity and the surrounding South Dakota community's eagerness to cash in on it. The Man Who Held Up a Mirror to America
  • One effortlessly got saturation coverage, the other struggled to get noticed, despite the mandatory presence of a celebrity, a suitably weighty one too.
  • MacFadzean plays Richie Excellent, the young funster who wields unearned celebrity.
  • The unposed, rather awkward-looking, front-on shots remind us that fashion is not all about celebrity and stylists.
  • The cover picture, the story and all the hoopla that surrounded it made me a celebrity. Times, Sunday Times
  • Celebrity steeplejack Fred Dibnah was supposed to end his days of felling factory chimneys with the demolition of the 175-ft Park Mill chimney in Royton yesterday.
  • So weeding out potential jurors with unchangeable views on guilt or innocence has the elaborateness of celebrity trials like that of O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted at the same courthouse in 1995. Jackson jury Q&A tests media's grip
  • California founded the celebrity culture, and as publicity stunts go, running for governor is on the cheap and easy side of the spectrum.
  • Cash will be the vital ingredient as celebrity chefs cook up a special fundraising treat for charity.
  • Also, if Shilpa is subjected to more teasing from Jade's crew, she may well go postal and slash all the Celebrity Big Brother housemates' throats open with a breadknife. Big Brother Celebrity Hijack Betting Odds: Double Eviction, Emilia Out?
View all