film starnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈfɪlm ˌstɑːr/us/ˈfɪlm ˌstɑːr/mainly UK US usually movie stara famous cinema actor
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Cinema - general words
- 12A
- animation
- animator
- best boy
- Bollywood
- boom
- CGI
- filmstrip
- footage
- freeze-frame
- gaffer
- Hollywood
- pan
- shoot
- slide projector
- slow motion
- soundtrack
- storyboard
- stunt
- the big screen 1
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Cinema & theatre: actors & performers
Examples from literature
- Often on TV or in magazines we see the rich and famous: successful film stars, singers, and sports people.
- Perhaps that’s why the rise of the film star made makeup more popular.
- There, bathed in light amid the surrounding gloom, like a film star in a disk of brightness, sat Scout Harris upon a grocery box surrounded by fallen sandwiches and with a goodly bowl securely held between his diminutive knees.