Icon vs. Celebrity

Icon vs. Celebrity — Is There a Difference?
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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.

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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 celebrity

Iconnoun

(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 them
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Iconnoun

a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church