CELEBRATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does celebrated mean? 

• CELEBRATED (adjective)
  The adjective CELEBRATED has 2 senses:

1. widely known and esteemed

2. having an illustrious past

  Familiarity information: CELEBRATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CELEBRATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Widely known and esteemed

Synonyms:

celebrated; famed; famous; far-famed; illustrious; notable; noted; renowned

Context example:

a renowned painter

Similar:

known (apprehended with certainty)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having an illustrious past

Synonyms:

celebrated; historied; storied

Similar:

glorious (having or deserving or conferring glory)

 Context examples 

You must go from hence, I will give you into the care of a celebrated master, who shall see what he can do with you.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He allowed your crimes to be great, but that still there was room for mercy, the most commendable virtue in a prince, and for which his majesty was so justly celebrated.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“I should never have known you under that moustache, and I daresay you would not be prepared to swear to me. This I presume is your celebrated friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes?”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These rapid successes, gained one after the other over four celebrated warriors, worked the crowd up to a pitch of wonder and admiration.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

London was our present point of rest; we determined to remain several months in this wonderful and celebrated city.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But Iceland’s most celebrated medieval poem, Vǫluspá (‘The prophecy of the seeress’) does appear to give an impression of what the eruption was like.

(Volcanic eruption influenced Iceland’s conversion to Christianity, University of Cambridge)

Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The solar eclipse on December 25 enlarged this trend, so you may have celebrated the holidays in a city not too far from yours.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In the drawing-room Miss Crawford was also celebrated.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Christmas and the New Year had been celebrated at Gateshead with the usual festive cheer; presents had been interchanged, dinners and evening parties given.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)