stardust

English

Etymology

star +‎ dust.

Noun

stardust (usually uncountable, plural stardusts)

Particles of matter that fall from space down to Earth
(figuratively) a powder with supposedly magic qualities
My sister's eyes were full of stardust, and she'd spend hours lazily planning her future life when she would make her big break in the movies.
(informal, dated, astronomy) A distant cluster of stars, resembling a cloud, the individual stars of which cannot be resolved.

Synonyms

(particles): cosmic dust

Translations

particles

Chinese:
Mandarin: 宇宙塵 (zh), 宇宙尘 (zh) (yǔzhòuchén)
Dutch: sterrenstof n
Finnish: avaruuspöly; (idiomatically) aikapöly
French: poussière cosmique f
German: kosmischer Staub m
Japanese: 宇宙塵 (うちゅうじん, uchūjin)

Latvian: kosmiskie putekļi m pl
Norwegian:
Bokmål: stjernestøv n

Nynorsk: stjernestøv n
Russian: межзвёздная пыль (ru) f (mežzvjózdnaja pylʹ), косми́ческая пыль f (kosmíčeskaja pylʹ), (romance) рома́нтика (ru) f (romántika)
Tagalog: mayawing alabok

dated: distant cluster of stars

Chinese:
Mandarin: 星塵, 星尘 (xīngchén)
Finnish: tähtisumu
French: poussière d'étoiles f, amas stellaire m

German: Sternenstaub m
Japanese: 星屑 (ja) (ほしくず, hoshikuzu), スターダスト (sutādasuto)
Russian: звёздная пыль f (zvjózdnaja pylʹ)

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