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 figure
noun
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.