star

From Middle English sterre, from Old English steorra (“star”), from Proto-Germanic *sternô, *sternǭ (“star”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr (“star”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /stɑː(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

star (plural stars)

1. Any small luminous dot appearing in the cloudless portion of the night sky, especially with a fixed location relative to other such dots.
2. (astronomy) A luminous celestial body, made up of plasma (particularly hydrogen and helium) and having a spherical shape. Depending on context the sun may or may not be included.
3. (geometry) A concave polygon with regular, pointy protrusions and indentations, generally with five or six points.
4. (acting) An actor in a leading role.

   Many Hollywood stars attended the launch party.

5. An exceptionally talented or famous person, often in a specific field; a celebrity.

   His teacher tells us he is a star pupil.

   • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart; Avery Hopwood, “The Shadow of the Bat”, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, OCLC 20230794, page 8:

     Star reporter, leg-man, cub, veteran gray in the trade—one and all they tried to pin the Bat like a caught butterfly to the front page of their respective journals—soon or late each gave up, beaten. He was news— […] —the brief, staccato recital of his career in the morgues of the great dailies grew longer and more incredible each day.

6. (printing) An asterisk (*).
7. A symbol used to rate hotels, films, etc. with a higher number of stars denoting better quality.
8. A simple dance, or part of a dance, where a group of four dancers each put their right or left hand in the middle and turn around in a circle. You call them right-hand stars or left-hand stars, depending on the hand which is in the middle.
9. (astrology) A planet supposed to influence one's destiny.

   What's in the stars for you today? Find out in our horoscope.

   • William Shakespeare

     O malignant and ill-brooding stars.

   • Joseph Addison

     Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:

     But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, […] . By the time we reached the house we were thanking our stars she had come.

10. A star-shaped ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honour.
    • Alfred, Lord Tennyson

      On whom […] / Lavish Honour showered all her stars.

11. A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in the air, presents a starlike appearance.

• (astronomy): * (abbreviation)

• (astronomy): celestial body

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• → German: Star

See star/translations § Noun

star (third-person singular simple present stars, present participle starring, simple past and past participle starred)

1. (intransitive) To appear as a featured performer or headliner, especially in an entertainment program.
2. (transitive) To feature a performer or a headliner, especially in a movie or an entertainment program.
3. (transitive) To mark with a star or asterisk.
4. (transitive) To set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies; to bespangle.
   • Young

     A sable curtain starred with gold.

• astronomy
• black hole
• galaxy
• moon
• mullet
• planet
• red giant

• RATs, RTAs, TSRA, arts, arts., rats, sart, tars, tsar

From Middle Dutch star, from Old Dutch [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *staraz.

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star (comparative starder, superlative starst)

1. stiff, frozen
2. rigid

• halsstarrig

From English.

• IPA^(key): /staʁ/

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star f (plural stars)

1. star (celebrity)

   Elle est devenue star. - she's become a star.

• stariser

• “star” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• arts, rats, tsar

Borrowed from English star.

star f (invariable)

1. star (celebrity)

From Latin stāre.

star

1. to be (indicates a temporary state)

• ser

star m (definite singular staren, indefinite plural starar, definite plural starane)

1. alternative form of stare

From Proto-Slavic *starъ.

• IPA^(key): /stâr/

stȁr (definite stȃrī, comparative stàrijī, Cyrillic spelling ста̏р)

1. old

• prastar

From Proto-Slavic *starъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstár/
• Tonal orthography: stȁr

stàr (comparative starêjši, superlative nàjstarêjši)

1. old, aged

   Star sem dvajset let.

   I'm twenty years old.

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• mlad

• prestàr

From Latin stāre, present active infinitive of stō. Compare Italian stare

star

1. (transitive) To stay or remain
2. (transitive) To live (somewhere)

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.