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单词 star
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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:

Stars twinkled above them as they lay on the hill.

More examples

  • 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:

a rock/movie/football star
Kids wanting to be stars come to Hollywood from all over America.
See also
co-star
superstar

More examples

  • 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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Famous people
Entertainers in general

star noun (SYMBOL)

A2 [ C ] a symbol with five or more points:

star-shaped
How many stars (= symbols showing quality) does this restaurant have?
The teacher gave Tom a gold star (= a paper symbol rewarding good work) for his drawing.
two-star, three-star, etc.

C1 used to show how good a restaurant, hotel, etc. is:

The cheaper two-star hotels are also within the range of the budget traveller.

a symbol made of metal or cloth worn by particular officials to show their rank:

a sheriff's star
a four-star general

[ C ] an asterisk (= a symbol *)

More examples

  • 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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Punctuation

star noun (LUCK)

[ C ] informal any planet or other object in the sky thought of in astrology as influencing a person's luck:

She was born under a lucky/an unlucky star.
See also
star sign
stars [ plural ] informal

→  horoscope :

I always like to see what the stars say in the newspaper.

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Astrology

  • astrologer
  • astrology
  • horoscope
  • sign of the zodiac
  • star sign
  • stargazer
  • zodiac

Idiom(s)

you're a star!

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:

David Oyelowo starred in the movie "Selma".
Zusak's novel "The Book Thief" was turned into a movie starring Geoffrey Rush.

More examples

  • 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/informal

C1 best or most important:

Natalie is, without a doubt, the star student in this year's ballet class.
This afternoon the prosecution will call its star witness.

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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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-starsuffix

uk/ -stɑːr/us/ -stɑːr/

a measurement of quality, usually in numbers from one to five with one being the lowest:

A three-star hotel is better than a two-star.

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Quality and standard

  • benchmark
  • cachet
  • calibre
  • class
  • conform
  • conform to/with sth
  • conformance
  • conformity
  • ideal
  • level
  • mark
  • notch
  • plane
  • prestige
  • qualitative
  • quality
  • quality assurance
  • status
  • style
  • upscale

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