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C — Catch to Certainty (Part 8 of 11)

Celebrity, n.

    1. Fame, renown, glory, honor, credit, reputation, eminence, distinction, repute.
    2. Person of note, noted person, lion.

Celerity, n. Speed, quickness, swiftness, rapidity, fleetness, velocity (when used of inanimate objects).

Celestial, a.

    1. Of or in the firmament, of or in the visible heavens, empyrean, empyreal.
    2. Heavenly, supernal, angelic, seraphic, god-like, divine.

Celibacy, n. Single life, unmarried state, abstinence from marriage.

Celibate, n., Bachelor, unmarried man.

Celibate, a. Unmarried, single.

Cell, n.

    1. Small room, confined apartment.
    2. Solitary abode; squalid, lonely dwelling.
    3. Enclosed space, small cavity,
    4. Elementary corpuscle, organic unit, simplest organism.

Cellular, a. Alveolate, favose, honey-combed.

Cement, n.

    1. Mortar.
    2. Bond of union, bond.

Cement, v. a. Unite, connect, attach, join.

Cement, v. n. Unite, cohere, stick together.

Cemetery, n. Graveyard, burying-ground, burial-ground, church-yard, necropolis, God’s Acre.

Cenotaph, n. Monument (to one whose body is not buried under it or near it), mortuary monument.