Celebrity is who? Significance, synonyms and interpretation

Their names often flash in various periodiceditions. Scandals, revelations, juicy details, rumors and news - all this surrounds the life of celebrities. They are also called "celebrities". Who is this? We will understand today.

English source code

We rarely have to open withan explanatory dictionary is also English-Russian, but sometimes such a necessity arises. If you look at the latter, he kindly reveals to us the mystery of the origin of the so-popular now-celebrity word. With the naked eye you can see that this is an ordinary tracing paper from the English language. And if so, it would be nice to find out how the definition is translated. The meaning of the word "celebrity" has two interpretations:

1. Fame, fame, popularity.
2. Celebrity, the star of cinema, television, theater.

It is easy to see that English is notthe phenomenon itself is differentiated from that martyr who exists under the yoke of this phenomenon. In other words, popularity and its medium is one word in English.

And in this place it will be necessary to interrupt the usual narrative and immediately move on to the peculiarities of the Russian use of the word.

Mutation of meaning in Russian

Naturally, in the classical explanatory dictionarythere is no word, so I had to look for him from other sources. In the process of research, we came across an entertaining fact: celebrities are representatives of the creative intelligentsia who came to the pages of newspapers and magazines not because of their professional accomplishments, but solely because of their rich personal and social life. The latter, of course, is characterized mainly negatively. Of course, the dictionary has a more capacious definition, but less clear.

If you need examples, then there is no shortage:

• Britney Spears;
• Lindsey Lohan;
• Ksenia Sobchak;
• Dana Borisova;
• Evgeny Osin.

The last two celebrities re-emergedrecently and not at all in the manner in which I would like to. If the reader follows the development of events, he will understand what the speech is about, and in the rest - these facts are of little interest.

What does the experience say?

He says that there is no particular differencebetween the words "celebrity" and "celebrity" are synonyms. If you analyze what they say and write, then discrepancies will not be found between the concepts in Russian. But there is one subtlety: if a television star, a stage or a movie incessantly provokes a scandal, or his name is associated with events that go out of the way, then, of course, he will be better known than someone who has long since retired.

For example, who now remembers actor Robert Lodge? But he left us only in 2015. To the Russian audience he is known for his participation in the series "Colombo" and the film "Gladiator" in 1992. The last film about amateur boxing, and not about battles in the Colosseum. In it, Loja plays a bandit. And is it possible to call this actor famous? Of course. A celebrity - it's not about him ... So it turns out, if you rely solely on the Russian dictionary, but you can argue with it. Someone can say that the renown of a famous artist is a thing of the past. This point of view also has the right to exist.

Synonyms

Finally, we want to enrich the reader with synonyms, so that he does not look for word-substitutions and phrases, capable of replacing the object of research in another place. So, the list:

• value;
• a great name;
• a star of the first magnitude;
• star;
• celebrity;
• a well-known public figure;
• light;
• a man with a name.

It must be said that under the official wording "a well-known public figure" any person of a particular profession can be hiding, so its (wording) presence on the list is necessary.

One more thing: if it is still not clear what "celebrity" means or the word seems ambiguous, then it is better not to use it, but to replace it with a more accurate synonymous definition. Maybe modern sources are not deceiving, and the object of research is really not suitable for praise. But for someone who knows English, this word with all the desire can not be bad - it is neutral, because it does not mean anything indecent.