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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

名人

Pronunciation / Transliteration: míngrén

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Celebrity/səˈleb.rə.ti/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1850 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"许多名人出席了晚会。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The state of being well known; a famous person.

    "The young actor struggled to cope with his sudden celebrity."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'celebritas', meaning multitude, fame, or solemnity, originating from 'celer', meaning swift or famous. Entering Middle English via Old French in the 15th century, the term initially referred to a state of being celebrated or a solemn ceremony, evolving by the 19th century to denote a famous person.

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