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célèbre in English:

1. famous


Everyone wants to meet you. You're famous!
He became famous.
Apparently, Tom was already famous before he released that album.
Florence Nightingale is famous as the woman who began professional nursing.
By this time next year, you will have visited almost all the famous places in Japan.
People usually become famous at the cost of their privacy.
The famous poet attempted to commit suicide in his library.
I like this picture, not just because it is famous, but because it really is a masterpiece.
As a young man, he did not know that he was to become famous later on.
People came to the concert hall to listen to the famous orchestra.
The world's greatest singers and most of its famous musicians have been fat or at least decidedly plump.
Many great thinkers who were unknown while alive became famous after death.
In California are the famous big trees, or "forest kings" as they are called.
Christopher Columbus started wearing his famous hat back when he was still a schoolboy, and was often punished by his teachers for refusing to take it off in class.
The world famous Hungarian painter Mihály Munkácsy's Christ Trilogy includes the paintings entitled "Christ before Pilate", "Golgotha" and "Ecce Homo".

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2. celebrated


We celebrated his birthday.
They celebrated his success by opening a bottle of wine.
She celebrated her fifteenth birthday yesterday.
Tom celebrated his twentieth birthday last week.
Tom and Mary celebrated their success.
It is not known when the Hinamatsuri first started, but the Nagashibina, in its most primitive form, was already being celebrated during the Heian period.
India's Independence Day is celebrated on the fifteenth of August.
I celebrated Bastille day with a baguette, Roquefort and a glass of mediocre French red.
Sea Day is one of the Japanese national holidays celebrated on the third Monday in July.
His courage was celebrated in all the newspapers.
a celebrated painter
TWiiNS celebrated my birthday via Twitter on June 12th.
In Mexico, most small towns have a patron saint whose feast day is celebrated with great fanfare.
the finest example being one of his most popular and celebrated novels, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Republic Day is celebrated on the twenty-sixth of January.

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3. famed


She is famed as a soprano.

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