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Definition of cult figure in English: cult figurenoun A writer, musician, artist, or other public figure who is greatly admired by a relatively small audience or is influential despite limited commercial success. at the time he was pretty much a cult figure, known only to a handful of art-movie buffs Example sentencesExamples - Not surprisingly, many Australian winemakers have become cult figures on the international scene and often celebrities at home.
- Signer is an artist's artist par excellence, and he has long been a kind of cult figure.
- At best a cult figure in his lifetime in the United States, he was adopted as one of the patron saints of the French New Wave.
- It said the BBC commentator had become a cult figure because of his "dry comments and lack of restraint".
- He was thus something of a cult figure to an extent that was unusual in one who rarely lectured and who would surely have been rather difficult to manage at book signings.
- Kurt's status as a cult figure guarantees a certain uncritical readership, and who wants to mess with that?
- This perceived eccentricity is an important part of Gould's identity and is no doubt part of the reason for his status as a cult figure.
- His eccentric, diffident personality helped to promote him quickly to the status of a cult figure.
- He is revered all over Europe as probably the world's leading classic choreographer, yet is little more than a cult figure in the United States.
- The undoubted cult figure of Pop Art was Andy Warhol (1928-1987).
Definition of cult figure in US English: cult figurenoun A writer, musician, artist, or other public figure who is greatly admired by a relatively small audience or is influential despite limited commercial success. at the time he was pretty much a cult figure, known only to a handful of art-movie buffs Example sentencesExamples - The undoubted cult figure of Pop Art was Andy Warhol (1928-1987).
- Not surprisingly, many Australian winemakers have become cult figures on the international scene and often celebrities at home.
- He was thus something of a cult figure to an extent that was unusual in one who rarely lectured and who would surely have been rather difficult to manage at book signings.
- It said the BBC commentator had become a cult figure because of his "dry comments and lack of restraint".
- He is revered all over Europe as probably the world's leading classic choreographer, yet is little more than a cult figure in the United States.
- Signer is an artist's artist par excellence, and he has long been a kind of cult figure.
- This perceived eccentricity is an important part of Gould's identity and is no doubt part of the reason for his status as a cult figure.
- Kurt's status as a cult figure guarantees a certain uncritical readership, and who wants to mess with that?
- At best a cult figure in his lifetime in the United States, he was adopted as one of the patron saints of the French New Wave.
- His eccentric, diffident personality helped to promote him quickly to the status of a cult figure.
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