celebrity

noun
/sɪˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ti/UK/səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/US/ˈsɛ.lᵻ.brɪ.ʈi/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from celēbritās
  2. derived from celebrite
  3. inherited from celebritē

Definitions

  1. A rite or ceremony.

  2. Fame, renown

    Fame, renown; the state of being famous or talked-about.

    • Many of those that envy celebrities aspire to celebrity themselves.
  3. A person who has a high degree of recognition by the general population for his or her…

    A person who has a high degree of recognition by the general population for his or her success or accomplishments; a famous person.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at celebrity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at celebrity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at celebrity

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA