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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
celebrated
adjective
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▪ Here indeed, is the entrance to the two most celebrated high valleys of the Pyrenees.
▪ The most celebrated of them is M57, the Ring Nebula in Lyra.
▪ Much the most celebrated object in the constellation is Omicron Ceti or Mira, the prototype long-period variable.
▪ Music and sport are areas in which blacks have made the most celebrated and acclaimed contribution.
▪ If their complexion was their most celebrated feature, then perhaps a long necklace of perfect pearls.
▪ He created several automatons, the most celebrated being Psycho, which first performed in 1875.
▪ Chico Mendes was one of the 1200, in fact the most celebrated case.
▪ Cyril Connolly had been a contemporary at Eton, and painted the most celebrated pen-portrait of the Prime Minister-to-be in 1938.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a celebrated professor
▪ Martin Luther King Jr. gave his celebrated speech before the Lincoln Memorial in 1963.
▪ Van Gogh, perhaps Holland's most celebrated artist, died in poverty.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As part of the exhibition, the celebrated publishing house will be showing six films it has produced on the Catalan artist.
▪ Cobden-Sanderson, co-founder of the Doves Press, was a celebrated binder as well as printer.
▪ Here also is the celebrated tomb of Saint Xavier.
▪ Here indeed, is the entrance to the two most celebrated high valleys of the Pyrenees.
▪ Jacques Delors's celebrated outburst over the fine levied against Renault was a case in point.
▪ The most celebrated of them is M57, the Ring Nebula in Lyra.
▪ The origins of Nizan's celebrated cynicism are to be located here.
▪ To Donne's celebrated image of the compasses' it may be doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has the better claim,.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Celebrated

Celebrated \Cel"e*bra`ted\, a. Having celebrity; distinguished; renowned.

Celebrated for the politeness of his manners.
--Macaulay.

Syn: Distinguished; famous; noted; famed; renowned; illustrious. See Distinguished.

Celebrated

Celebrate \Cel"e*brate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Celebrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Celebrating.] [L. celebratus, p. p. of celebrare to frequent, to celebrate, fr. celeber famous.]

  1. To extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High.

  2. To honor by solemn rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly; to keep; as, to celebrate a birthday.

    From even unto even shall ye celebrate your Sabbath.
    --Lev. xxiii. 32.

  3. To perform or participate in, as a sacrament or solemn rite; to solemnize; to perform with appropriate rites; as, to celebrate a marriage.

    Syn: To commemorate; distinguish; honor.

    Usage: To Celebrate, Commemorate. We commemorate events which we desire to keep in remembrance, when we recall them by some special observace; as, to commemorate the death of our Savior. We celebrate by demonstrations of joy or solemnity or by appropriate ceremonies; as, to celebrate the birthday of our Independence.

    We are called upon to commemorate a revolution as surprising in its manner as happy in its consequences.
    --Atterbury.

    Earth, water, air, and fire, with feeling glee, Exult to celebrate thy festival.
    --Thomson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
celebrated

"much-talked-about," 1660s, past participle adjective from celebrate (v.).

Wiktionary
celebrated
  1. famous or widely praised for good works v

  2. (en-past of: celebrate)

WordNet
celebrated
  1. adj. widely known and esteemed; "a famous actor"; "a celebrated musician"; "a famed scientist"; "an illustrious judge"; "a notable historian"; "a renowned painter" [syn: famed, far-famed, famous, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned]

  2. having an illustrious past [syn: historied, storied]

Usage examples of "celebrated".

His sight, which had troubled him at intervals, became affected, and a celebrated oculist spoke of abnormality, asymetry of the pupils.

In the seventeenth century, the absolutist reaction to the revolutionary forces of modernity celebrated the patrimonial monarchic state and wielded it as a weapon for its own purposes.

The Pleiades were all abuzz over the advent of their visiting star, Miss Frances Homer, the celebrated monologuist, who, at Eaton Auditorium, again presented her Women of Destiny series, in which she portrays women of history and the influence they brought to bear upon the lives of such momentous world figures as Napoleon, Ferdinand of Spain, Horatio Nelson and Shakespeare.

As we left the Tuileries, Patu took me to the house of a celebrated actress of the opera, Mademoiselle Le Fel, the favourite of all Paris, and member of the Royal Academy of Music.

The city of Mursa, or Essek, celebrated in modern times for a bridge of boats, five miles in length, over the River Drave, and the adjacent morasses, has been always considered as a place of importance in the wars of Hungary.

No one guessed that the mourning dress of the celebrated French writer belonged to the merchant Fromery, and that the glittering diamond agraffes in his bosom, and the costly rings on his fingers, were the property of the Jew Hirsch.

It is true, indeed, that according to a celebrated observer, Professor von Bunge, the influence of alcoholism in preceding generations is such that the daughters of such a stock are mostly unable to nurse their children.

President Lincoln issued a proclamation granting a great number of pardons upon certain specified conditions, and subsequently President Johnson issued his celebrated amnesty proclamation granting pardons to certain specified classes in the South that had participated in the Rebellion.

This famous courtezan, whose beauty was justly celebrated, feeling herself eaten away by an internal disease, promised to give a hundred louis to a doctor named Lucchesi, who by dint of mercury undertook to cure her, but Ancilla specified on the agreement that she was not to pay the aforesaid sum till Lucchesi had offered with her an amorous sacrifice.

His Excellency also resolved that no cleric of his archbishopric, of whatever rank or degree he be, either by himself or in the name of the communities which he represents, may or ought to go to the said functions celebrated in the convents or churches of the said Society.

Even he had celebrated, albeit a bit subdued, because Aril Nunb had been found alive and nearly well in Invisec.

If one wishes to undertake an archaeological analysis of knowledge itself, it is not these celebrated controversies that ought to be used as the guidelines and articulation of such a project.

The pessimistic Ascenders dourly pursued an otherworldly Goal they were assured of never reaching, and the optimistic Descenders giddily embraced a this-worldly creation whose Source they celebrated but never experienced.

The marriage was celebrated in all imaginable pomp, and Avenant and the Fair One with Golden Locks lived and reigned happily together all their days.

William Hunter, the brother of Agnes and Joanna Baillie, was a celebrated anatomist.