celebrities
USsuh-LEB-ri-teez/səˈlɛbɹɪtiz/UKsi-LEB-ri-teez/sɪˈlɛbɹɪtiz/
- 1Plural of celebrity.
Two famous celebrities endorsed the new product in its ad campaign.
Magazines pay photographers handsomely for candid shots of celebrities.
Note
A plural with only one living meaning: famous people. When celebrity means fame itself, it is uncountable, so the celebrities of an age are always famous individuals, never kinds of renown. An obsolete countable use once let the plural mean rites or ceremonies, but a modern reader will not meet it. The spelling follows the regular rule: a final y after a consonant becomes -ies.
celebrities is a form of celebrity
celebrity, noun: A person widely recognized by the general public for their success or accomplishments. Full entry
- Forms
- celebritycelebrities plural
- Spelling
- celebrity → celebrities: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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