Name of commoner quietly erased by church (5)
I believe the answer is:
celeb
'name' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'commoner quietly erased by church' is the wordplay.
'commoner' becomes 'pleb' (pleb is a kind of commoner).
'quietly' becomes 'p' (p for piano and quiet).
'erased' indicates named letters should be taken away.
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'church' becomes 'ce' (abbreviation for Church of England).
'pleb' with 'p' taken away is 'leb'.
'leb' put after 'ce' is 'CELEB'.
'of' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for celeb that I've seen before include "Famous person (abbr)" , "Household name" , "Famous person (colloq.)" , "popular star" , "Famous person (sl.)" .)