(behave as expected during of holidays or rites; "Keep the commandments"; "celebrate Christmas"; "Observe Yom Kippur")
(have a celebration; "They were feting the patriarch of the family"; "After the exam, the students were celebrating")
(assign great social importance to; "The film director was celebrated all over Hollywood"; "The tenor was lionized in Vienna")
(widely known and esteemed; "a famous actor"; "a celebrated musician"; "a famed scientist"; "an illustrious judge"; "a notable historian"; "a renowned painter")
(having an illustrious past)