Celebrity vs Icon - What's the difference?
celebrity | icon |
(label) A rite or ceremony.
(label) Fame, renown; the state of being famous or talked-about.
A person who has a high degree of recognition by the general population; a famous person ().
* {{quote-book, year=1897, author=
, title=
, chapter=1 An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
A religious painting, often done on wooden panels.
A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
A small picture which represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs some function.)
(linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons. See also (symbol) and (index).
Pictual representations of files, programs and folders on a computer.
As nouns the difference between celebrity and icon
is that celebrity is a rite or ceremony while icon is an , symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.celebrity
English
(Celebrity)Noun
(celebrities)citation, passage=I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.}}
Synonyms
* (fame) big name, distinction, eminence, renown * (person who has a high degree of recognition) big name, star, (informal) celeb, luminary, notable (noun)icon
English
(wikipedia icon)Alternative forms
* eikon, ikonNoun
(en noun)- That man is an icon in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.