starnoun
uk/stɑːr/us/stɑːr/star noun (OBJECT IN SPACE)
A2 [ C ] a very large ball of burning gas in space that is usually seen from the earth as a point of light in the sky at night:
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- Elaine looked up at the black, velvety sky studded with tiny, twinkling stars.
- The stars twinkled in the clear sky.
- We could see hundreds of stars in the clear desert sky.
- The sky glimmered with stars.
- Those seven bright stars make the shape of a saucepan.
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Astronomy
- asteroid
- astral
- astro-
- astrolabe
- astronomer
- geostationary orbit
- gibbous
- heavenly body
- interplanetary
- interstellar
- planetoid
- Pleiades
- plough
- Pluto
- Polaris
- the Southern Cross
- Uranus
- Venus
- vernal equinox
- wane
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star noun (PERFORMER)
A2 [ C ] a very famous, successful, and important person, especially a performer such as a musician, actor, or sports player:
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- the stars of the silver screen
- There will be many stars performing in the Royal Ballet's Gala Night, held in aid of children's charities.
- She is one of the rising stars in the political firmament.
- A number of stars from the world of music attended the event.
- The 23-year-old tennis star looks unbeatable this season.
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Cinema & theatre: actors & performers
- act
- actor
- actress
- all-star
- cast
- chorus
- film star
- frontman
- lead 1
- luvvy
- matinee idol
- megastar
- mime artist
- movie star
- stooge
- straight man
- stuntman
- stuntwoman
- superstar
- understudy
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star noun (SYMBOL)
A2 [ C ] a symbol with five or more points:
C1 used to show how good a restaurant, hotel, etc. is:
a symbol made of metal or cloth worn by particular officials to show their rank:
[ C ] an asterisk (= a symbol *)
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- The US flag has 50 stars on it.
- She was wearing a T-shirt with a star on the front.
- She sent me that Christmas card with the star on it.
- There are little stars all over her bedroom ceiling.
- I bought some wallpaper with stars on it for the spare bedroom.
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Geometrical shapes
- -cornered
- -dimensional
- circular
- cuboid
- cylinder
- cylindrical
- dome
- hexagon
- incongruent
- isometric
- lozenge
- octagon
- oval
- ovoid
- parallelogram
- polygon
- quadrilateral
- rhombus
- spherical
- triangle
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star noun (LUCK)
[ C ] informal any planet or other object in the sky thought of in astrology as influencing a person's luck:
→ horoscope :
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Astrology
- astrologer
- astrology
- horoscope
- sign of the zodiac
- star sign
- stargazer
- zodiac
Idiom(s)
starverb [ I + prep, T ]
uk/stɑːr/us/stɑːr/-rr-B1 If a film, play, etc. stars someone, or if someone stars in a film, play, etc., they are the main actor in it:
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- Ingrid Bergman starred with Humphrey Bogart in the movie 'Casablanca'.
- Last year he starred in the movie adaptation of Bill Cronshaw's best-selling novel.
- The movie stars Mark Burgess-Ashton as the gung-ho young fighter pilot.
- The movie stars Kathleen Turner as the hard-boiled detective of Sarah Paretsky's novel.
- Russell Crowe stars as a grief-stricken avenger on the trail of his family's killers.
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Cinema & theatre: acting, rehearsing & performing
- act
- act sth out
- amateur theater
- dumb show
- enact
- entrance 1
- ham
- ham it up
- improvise
- live action
- mime
- offstage
- portray
- prompt
- repertory
- rest
- stage
- stage whisper
- stretch
- variety
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staradjective [ before noun ]
uk/stɑːr/us/stɑːr/informalC1 best or most important:
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Extremely good
- admirable
- amazing
- ask for sb/sth
- award-winning
- awesome
- bowl
- brilliant
- incomparable
- incredible
- inspired
- irreplaceable
- life is just a bowl of cherries idiom
- outstanding
- parallel
- sterling
- superb
- superlatively
- supremacy
- supreme
- terrific
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