Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Celebrity

Celebrity , noun

[Latin celebritas: compare French célébrité.]

1.
Celebration; solemnization. [Obsolete]
The celebrity of the marriage. — Bacon
2.
The state or condition of being celebrated; fame; renown; as, the celebrity of Washington.
An event of great celebrity in the history of astronomy. — Whewell
3.
A person of distinction or renown; -- usually in the plural; as, he is one of the celebrities of the place.