单词 | celebrated |
释义 | celebrated (once / 174 pages) adj If something is celebrated, it's famous. Your town's celebrated restaurant — the one everybody knows and talks about — might be a modest barbecue joint. A celebrated writer is an important, well-known one, like Ernest Hemingway or Maya Angelou. In your family, a celebrated figure might be the cousin who visits every summer and tells the best stories. As long as someone is talked about and revered by a group of people, they're celebrated. This adjective comes from the verb celebrate and its Latin root celebrare, "to sing praises of." WORD FAMILYcelebrate: celebrated, celebrater, celebrates, celebrating, celebration, celebrator, celebratory+/celebrater: celebraters/celebration: celebrations/celebrator: celebrators USAGE EXAMPLESLakeside Park, of course, celebrated its new splashpad and other improvements. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) “A hero soldier of the caliphate attacked one of the most famous nightclubs, where Christians celebrated their pagan holiday,” the statement read. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Fireworks lit up the sky above Seattle Center as thousands of revelers celebrated the start of the new year. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1adj widely known and esteemed a celebrated musician Syn famed, famous, far-famed, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned known apprehended with certainty 2adj having an illustrious past Syn historied, storied glorious having or deserving or conferring glory |
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