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Celebrity vs Repute - What's the difference?

celebrity | repute | Related terms |

Celebrity is a related term of repute.


As a noun celebrity

is (label) a rite or ceremony.

As a verb repute is

.

celebrity

English

(Celebrity)

Noun

(celebrities)
  • (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 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)

    repute

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Reputation, especially a good reputation.
  • *
  • *:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
  • Verb

    (reput)
  • To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
  • To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something
  • * Bible, Job xviii. 3
  • Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
  • * Shakespeare
  • The king your father was reputed for / A prince most prudent.