celebritizeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

celebritize (third-person singular simple present celebritizes, present participle celebritizing, simple past and past participle celebritized)

1. (transitive) To transform (a person or concept) into a celebrity; to make famous.
   • 1994, Toril Moi, Janis Radway, Materialist Feminism, page 773:

     Its failure to politicize celebrity, as well as to celebritize politics, caused the nascent group to founder in its early days.

   • 2016, Chris Pavone, The Travelers, page 269:

     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 personalities out of staff, to celebritize themselves, puffing out their chests to appear more relevant, less shut-down-able.

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