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Fame vs Microcelebrity - What's the difference?

fame | microcelebrity |

As an adjective fame

is (in combination ) having a specified reputation.

As a noun microcelebrity is

(uncountable) celebrity on a small scale or in a specific area.

fame

English

Noun

(-)
  • What is said or reported; gossip, rumour.
  • * 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , Book 1, ll. 651-4:
  • There went a fame in Heav'n that he ere long / Intended to create, and therein plant / A generation, whom his choice regard / Should favour […].
  • * 2012 , Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex , Penguin 2013, p. 23:
  • If the accused could produce a specified number of honest neighbours to swear publicly that the suspicion was unfounded, and if no one else came forward to contradict them convincingly, the charge was dropped: otherwise the common fame was held to be true.
  • One's reputation.
  • The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
  • I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.}}

    Derived terms

    * hall of fame * walk of fame

    Verb

    (fam)
  • To make (someone or something) famous.
  • Anagrams

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    microcelebrity

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Celebrity on a small scale or in a specific area.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=April 19, author=Michael Agger, title=Dude, Murdoch Friended Us!, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=It was in this culture of microcelebrity that Anderson, an intellectual drifter who had been a hacker in his teens, saw an opportunity for MySpace. }}
  • (countable) A celebrity whose fame is on a small scale or in a specific area.