who's who
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A publication containing biographies of well-known or important people.
可数 不可数Nearly every country has now a Who's Who, which gives a brief outline of the life and work of living men who have distinguished themselves in various ways.
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A list of notable, famous, or upper-class people.
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Collectively, the elite class.
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A person appearing in a Who's Who publication.
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A celebrity or famous person, someone likely to be in such a publication.
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The identities of specific people, understood in terms of such distinguishing characteristics as their backgrounds, prominence, achievements, jobs, etc., as a basis for comparing them and especially as a basis for ranking them within a social group.
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From Who's Who, the British publication of biographies for the upper class, first published in 1849.
来源：wiktionary