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Reputation vs Celebrity - What's the difference?

reputation | celebrity |

As nouns the difference between reputation and celebrity

is that reputation is what somebody is known for while celebrity is a rite or ceremony.

reputation

Noun

(en noun)
  • What somebody is known for.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1529 , author=John Frith , by= , title=A pistle to the Christen reader. The Revelation of Antichrist: Antithesis, citation , chapter= , isbn= , publisher=Luft [i.e. Hoochstraten] , location= , editor= , volume_plain= , page=117 , passage=And Balaam (or as the trueth of the hebrewe hath Bileam) doth signifie the people of no reputation / or the vayne people or they that are not counted for people. }}

    Usage notes

    * Adjectives often applied to "reputation": good, great, excellent, bad, stellar, tarnished, evil, damaged, dubious, spotless, terrible, ruined, horrible, lost, literary, corporate, global, personal, academic, scientific, posthumous, moral, artistic.

    Synonyms

    * name

    Derived terms

    * reputational

    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)