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celebrity  

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  • Celebrity is the status of being well-known, praised, exalted, or attributed with importance, and it is also used to describe people or things endowed with such status. So someone can have celebrity and also be a celebrity. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture; Celebrity]

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