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Star

noun

1.

(astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior.

2.

Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field. Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard.

3.

Any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the Earth at night.

4.

An actor who plays a principal role. Synonyms: lead, principal.

5.

A plane figure with 5 or more points; often used as an emblem.

6.

A performer who receives prominent billing. Synonym: headliner.

7.

A star-shaped character * used in printing. Synonym: asterisk.

8.

The topology of a network whose components are connected to a hub. Synonym: star topology.

adjective

1.

Indicating the most important performer or role. Synonyms: leading, prima, starring, stellar. "Prima ballerina" , "Prima donna" , "A star figure skater" , "The starring role" , "A stellar role" , "A stellar performance"

verb

(past & past part. starred; pres. part. starring)

1.

Feature as the star.

2.

Be the star in a performance.

3.

Mark with an asterisk. Synonym: asterisk.

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"Star" Quotes from Famous Books

... business; and from the outset every foreign journalist and diplomatist who came his way was made to feel his fascination: so that, even before leaving his native shores, the Cretan had become in the European firmament a star of the third or fourth magnitude. Reasons other than personal contributed to enlist Western opinion in his favour. Owing to her geographical situation, Greece depends for the fulfilment of her national aspirations and for her very existence ...

— Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 • G. F. Abbott

... equivalent for the sacrifice.... Is it better to be the most intimate friend of a man of genius or the wife of a commonplace Tisdall?" Whatever we may surmise, there is nothing to prove that she was disappointed. She was the one star which brightened Swift's storm-tossed course; it is well that she was spared seeing the wreck at ...

— The Journal to Stella • Jonathan Swift

... in one of Mr. Rudyard Kipling's stories of a night in an Indian city when the dog star rages. Luridly, but vigorously, the author brings home to you the odious discomfort, the awful suffering, and, finally, the morose anger and almost homicidal fury, which the sweltering light produces ...

— Sketches In The House (1893) • T. P. O'Connor

... Arabella Crane, not inexperienced in children, recognized a power of will stronger than the power of brute force, in that tranquillity of eye, the spark of calm light in its tender blue, blue, pure as the sky; light, steadfast as the star. ...

— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... answered. "If thou dost yield, then art thou doomed. All last night I questioned of the Fates concerning thee, and I saw this: when thy star draws near to Caesar's it pales and is swallowed up; but when it passes from his radiance, then bright and big it shines, equal in glory to his own. All is not lost, and while some part remains, everything may be regained. Egypt can ...

— Cleopatra • H. Rider Haggard

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