celebritize
celebritize verb: to transform (a person or concept) into a celebrity; to make famous.
Verb
celebritize (third-person singular simple present celebritizes, present participle celebritizing, simple past and past participle celebritized)
- To transform (a person or concept) into a celebrity; to make famous.
- Its failure to politicize celebrity, as well as to celebritize politics, caused the nascent group to founder in its early days.1994, Toril Moi, Janis Radway, Materialist Feminism, page 773
- Everyone is required to sit for new headshots, to write exhaustively and shamelessly about themselves, to collect links to their TV clips and old articles, their author pages and personal websites, all this content shoveled onto the heaping pile of the magazine's redesigned website, trying to make...2016, Chris Pavone, The Travelers, page 269
Forms of celebritize
| third-person singular present | celebritizes |
|---|---|
| present participle | celebritizing |
| past participle | celebritized |
| past | celebritized |
Origin of celebritize
From celebrity + -ize.
Words formed from celebritize
Questions about celebritize
- What does celebritize mean?
- Celebritize means to transform (a person or concept) into a celebrity; to make famous.
- What part of speech is celebritize?
- Celebritize is a verb.
- What is the past tense of celebritize?
- The past tense of celebritize is celebritized.
Words near celebritize in the dictionary
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