释义
[ awl -stahr ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈɔlˌstɑr / PHONETIC RESPELLING
adjective consisting of athletes chosen as the best at their positions from all teams in a league or region: Our quarterback was chosen for the all-star team.
consisting entirely of star performers: an all-star cast.
noun Sports . a player selected for an all-star team.
Origin of all-star An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
Words nearby all-star all-singing all-dancing, all-sorts, All Souls' Day, allspice, all square, all-star , all-state, Allston, All's Well That Ends Well, all systems go, all talk (and no action)
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Example sentences from the Web for all-star To his peers, he's an all-star eccentric who is pitied or clucked over protectively as often as he is envied.
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At some point in the intervening decades, all of those cards have vanished, save one: my 1978 Reggie Jackson All-Star card.
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Sapan has shot an all-star list of portraits, a six-week process that starts around $2,500: Warhol was an early subject.
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“This is a prestigious panel, an all-star group,” Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) gushed of the five people sitting before him.
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He was an All-Star in 1971, and helped lead the Pirates to a World Series championship that year.
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He was pretty hard hit by the failure of the All-Star League to go through last year, but hes got plenty left.
Baseball Joe, Home Run King | Lester Chadwick
If ever a magazine merited the designation “all-star number,” your August issue filled the bill.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 | Various
He had "an all-star production," direct from "the leading theatres of the universe."
The Daughter of Anderson Crow | George Barr McCutcheon
It is not my purpose to select an all-star football team from the long list of heroes past and present.
Football Days | William H. Edwards
It sounded the death knell of the All-Star League, and it went to pieces like a house of cards.
Baseball Joe Around the World | Lester Chadwick
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British Dictionary definitions for all-star adjective (prenominal) consisting of star performers
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