Icon vs. Celebrity

Difference Between Icon and Celebrity
Iconnoun
An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
Celebritynoun
(obsolete) A rite or ceremony.
Iconnoun
A type of religious painting portraying a saint or scene from Scripture, often done on wooden panels.
Celebritynoun
(uncountable) Fame, renown; the state of being famous or talked-about.
Iconnoun
A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
That man is an icon in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.Celebritynoun
A person who has a high degree of recognition by the general population for his or her success or accomplishments; a famous person.
Iconnoun
(computing) A small picture that represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs some function.)
Celebritynoun
a widely known person;
he was a baseball celebrityIconnoun
(linguistics) A word, character, or sign whose form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons. See also symbol and index.
Celebritynoun
the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed
Iconnoun
(computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface
Iconnoun
a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface;
they showed us the pictures of their weddinga movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates themIconnoun
a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church