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star

See also: Star, Stär, stár, står, śtar, and štar

English

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Stars (1, 2).
 
A star shape (3).

Etymology

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From Middle English sterre, from Old English steorra (“star”), from Proto-West Germanic *sterrō, variant of *sternō, from Proto-Germanic *sternô, *sternǭ (“star”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr (“star”). Doublet of aster, stella, étoile, and estoile.

Cognates

Cognate with Scots starn, ster, North Frisian steer, West Frisian stjer, Saterland Frisian Stiern, Dutch ster, Luxembourgish Stär, German Stern, Yiddish שטערן (shtern), Vilamovian śtaom, Swedish stjärna, Norwegian stjerne, Icelandic stjarna, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐍉 (stairnō), Spanish estrella, Portuguese estrela, French étoile, Italian stella, Romanian stea, Occitan estela, Venetan stéła, Sicilian stidda, Sardinian isteddu, Mirandese streilha, Walloon sitoele, Romansch staila, Megleno-Romanian steau̯ă, Istriot stila, Istro-Romanian ste, Latin stēlla, Greek αστέρι (astéri), Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr), Old Armenian աստղ (astł), Persian ستاره (setâre), Tajik ситора (sitora), Pashto ستوری (storay), Mazanderani اساره (ëssâre), Northern Kurdish stêr, Central Kurdish ئەستێرە (estêre), Zazaki astare, Ossetian стъалы (st’aly), Hindi तारा (tārā), Urdu تارا (tārā), Punjabi ਤਾਰਾ (tārā), Gujarati તારો (tāro), Sanskrit तारा (tārā).

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star (plural stars)

  1. Any small, natural and bright dot appearing in the unobscured sky, especially in the night or twilight sky.
  3. (astronomy) A spheroid of plasma with sufficient gravity to fuse hydrogen or heavier elements into heavier elements still. Depending on context the Sun may or may not be included.
  4. (geometry) A concave polygon with regular, pointy protrusions and indentations, usually with four, five, or six points.
  5. (acting) An actor in a leading role.
    Many Hollywood stars attended the launch party.
  6. An exceptionally talented or famous person, often in a specific field; a celebrity.
    His teacher tells us he is a star pupil.
    • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, “The Shadow of the Bat”, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 8:
      Star reporter, leg-man, cub, veteran gray in the trade—one and all they tried to pin the Bat like a caught butterfly to the front page of their respective journals—soon or late each gave up, beaten. He was news— […] —the brief, staccato recital of his career in the morgues of the great dailies grew longer and more incredible each day.
  7. (Jamaica, MLE, African-American Vernacular) (by extension) A friend, a mate, a pal.
    • 2003, Michael Maynard, Games Men Play, page 127:
      "Wha'ppen, star!" Hector said, grinning to reveal a gold-capped tooth. He told everyone it was solid twenty-four carat, but if it was, he would have wrenched it out with pliers to pawn to the highest bidder by now.
    • 2017, Les Back, New Ethnicities and Urban Culture: Racisms and Multiculture in Young Lives‎[1]:
      Switches character to the street-wise Ragamuffin, speaking out of the corner of his mouth in Creole: "Whappen now star! Seckle, seckle now people! Cool, cool na baass! [what is happening friends? Settle down]
    • 2022, Moses McKenzie, An Olive Grove in Ends‎[2]:
      'Dey ain't mine,' Stacey snapped, flicking her head towards the yutes in the bedroom. 'I'm juss lookin after dem fi mi fren dem. I only av six pickney by tree men enuh, star.'
  8. (printing) An asterisk (*) or symbol (★).
    • 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714:
      Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics.
  9. A symbol used to rate hotels, films, etc. with a higher number of stars denoting better quality.
  10. A simple dance, or part of a dance, where a group of four dancers each put their right or left hand in the middle and turn around in a circle. You call them right-hand stars or left-hand stars, depending on the hand which is in the middle.
  11. (astrology) A planet supposed to influence one's destiny.
    What's in the stars for you today? Find out in our horoscope.
  12. A star-shaped ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honour.
  13. A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in the air, presents a starlike appearance.
  14. (networking) A network topology with multiple computers individually merging to one central switch, thus free of risk of collisions. A single point of failure can occur if the switch experiences corruption.

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Descendants

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  • Sranan Tongo: stari
    • Aukan: sitali
  • → Finnish: stara
  • → French: star
  • → German: Star
  • → Italian: star
  • → Swahili: staa

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See star/translations § Noun.

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Verb

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star (third-person singular simple present stars, present participle starring, simple past and past participle starred)

  1. (intransitive) To appear as a featured performer or headliner, especially in an entertainment program.
    She starred in dozens of silent movies.
    • 1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major:
      I was inundated with invitations; […] I felt, indeed, much as a great actor must when he goes 'starring' in the provinces.
  2. (transitive) To feature (a performer or a headliner), especially in a movie or an entertainment program.
    The show stars Calista Flockhart as a high-powered lawyer.
    • 2004, David W. Menefee, The First Female Stars: Women of the Silent Era, page 4:
      "What followed this decision was exactly what we had expected: Mr. Fox, realizing that the public was tiring of Theda Bara in vampire roles, announced that he would star her in a production of Romeo and Juliet," she illustrated.
  3. (transitive) To mark with a star or asterisk.
  4. (transitive) To set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies; to bespangle.
  5. (intransitive) To shine like a star.

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Dutch

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch star, from Old Dutch *star, from Proto-West Germanic *star, from Proto-Germanic *staraz.

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Adjective

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star (comparative starder, superlative starst)

  1. stiff, frozen
  2. rigid

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Declension of star
uninflected star
inflected starre
comparative starder
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial star starder het starst
het starste
indefinite m./f. sing. starre stardere starste
n. sing. star starder starste
plural starre stardere starste
definite starre stardere starste
partitive stars starders —

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Further reading

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  • “star” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English star. Doublet of aster.

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star f (plural stars)

  1. star (celebrity)
    Elle est devenue star. ― She's become a star.

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English star.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈstar/
  • Rhymes: -ar
  • Hyphenation: stàr

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star f (invariable)

  1. star (celebrity)

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Jamaican Creole

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star (plural star dem, quantified star)

  1. A friend, a mate, a pal
    • 2008 August 26, “Kill Dem” (track 9), in Most Wanted‎[3], performed by Vybz Kartel:
      Me full ah gun pon di Gaza. Run some boy file and find out dem a barber. Jah know star, what dem ah try?
      I empty a gun on the Gaza. I run some boy's file and find out they're a barber. God knows mate, what are they trying to do?
    • 2009, “Whe Dem A Go Run Go”‎[4]performed by Vybz Kartel, 01:58-02:01:
      Whe dem a go run go, Whe dem a go run go star? Start way dem caan run go far.
      Where are they going to, where are they going to run to friend? They start to go away but they can’t get far (before getting shot).

Maltese

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Root
s-t-r
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Etymology

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From Arabic سِتَار (sitār).

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star m (plural stari)

  1. veil
    Synonym: (commoner) velu

Mirandese

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Etymology

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From Latin stāre.

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star

  1. to be (indicates a temporary state)

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Northern Kurdish

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Etymology

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Akin to Central Kurdish ستار (star, “retire, retreat, take refuge”), originally a descendant of Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- but now conflated with Arabic سِتَار (sitār), hence the second sense. Proposed to be the name of an ancient deity by some based on the common expression "Ya Star!" ("O Star!", said to ask God for endurance and strength).

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star f

  1. standing, the ability to stand or stay at one's place, strength, energy; not worrying or being bored, calmness.
  2. protection, coverage

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  • (the ability to stand, strength of legs, energy): qidûm

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
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star m (definite singular staren, indefinite plural starar, definite plural starane)

  1. alternative form of stare

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star m (definite singular staren, indefinite plural starar, definite plural starane)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of stær

Portuguese

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star (first-person singular present stou, first-person singular preterite stive, past participle stado)

  1. Obsolete spelling of estar.

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English star. Doublet of aster and stea.

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star n (plural staruri)

  1. star (famous person)

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Declension of star
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative star starul staruri starurile
genitive-dative star starului staruri starurilor
vocative starule starurilor

Sabir

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Etymology

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From Italian stare (“to be”).

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star

  1. to be

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  • Feissat et Demonchy, Dictionnaire de la Langue Franque, ou Petit Mauresque

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *starъ.

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stȁr (Cyrillic spelling ста̏р, definite stȃrī, comparative stàrijī)

  1. old
    Antonym: mlad

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positive indefinite forms
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative star stara staro
genitive stara stare stara
dative staru staroj staru
accusative inanimate
animate 		star
stara 		staru staro
vocative star stara staro
locative staru staroj staru
instrumental starim starom starim
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative stari stare stara
genitive starih starih starih
dative starim(a) starim(a) starim(a)
accusative stare stare stara
vocative stari stare stara
locative starim(a) starim(a) starim(a)
instrumental starim(a) starim(a) starim(a)
positive definite forms
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative stari stara staro
genitive starog(a) stare starog(a)
dative starom(u/e) staroj starom(u/e)
accusative inanimate
animate 		stari
starog(a) 		staru staro
vocative stari stara staro
locative starom(e/u) staroj starom(e/u)
instrumental starim starom starim
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative stari stare stara
genitive starih starih starih
dative starim(a) starim(a) starim(a)
accusative stare stare stara
vocative stari stare stara
locative starim(a) starim(a) starim(a)
instrumental starim(a) starim(a) starim(a)
comparative forms
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative stariji starija starije
genitive starijeg(a) starije starijeg(a)
dative starijem(u) starijoj starijem(u)
accusative inanimate
animate 		stariji
starijeg(a) 		stariju starije
vocative stariji starija starije
locative starijem(u) starijoj starijem(u)
instrumental starijim starijom starijim
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative stariji starije starija
genitive starijih starijih starijih
dative starijim(a) starijim(a) starijim(a)
accusative starije starije starija
vocative stariji starije starija
locative starijim(a) starijim(a) starijim(a)
instrumental starijim(a) starijim(a) starijim(a)
superlative forms
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative najstariji najstarija najstarije
genitive najstarijeg(a) najstarije najstarijeg(a)
dative najstarijem(u) najstarijoj najstarijem(u)
accusative inanimate
animate 		najstariji
najstarijeg(a) 		najstariju najstarije
vocative najstariji najstarija najstarije
locative najstarijem(u) najstarijoj najstarijem(u)
instrumental najstarijim najstarijom najstarijim
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative najstariji najstarije najstarija
genitive najstarijih najstarijih najstarijih
dative najstarijim(a) najstarijim(a) najstarijim(a)
accusative najstarije najstarije najstarija
vocative najstariji najstarije najstarija
locative najstarijim(a) najstarijim(a) najstarijim(a)
instrumental najstarijim(a) najstarijim(a) najstarijim(a)

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  • “star”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
  • “star”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovene

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *starъ.

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stȁr (comparative starȇjši, superlative nȁjstarȇjši)

  1. old, aged
    Antonym: mlad
    Star sem dvajset let. ― I'm twenty years old.

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Hard
masculine feminine neuter
nom. sing. stàr stára stáro
singular
masculine feminine neuter
nominative stàr ind
stári def 		stára stáro
genitive stárega stáre stárega
dative stáremu stári stáremu
accusative nominativeinan or
genitiveanim 		stáro stáro
locative stárem stári stárem
instrumental stárim stáro stárim
dual
masculine feminine neuter
nominative stára stári stári
genitive stárih stárih stárih
dative stárima stárima stárima
accusative stára stári stári
locative stárih stárih stárih
instrumental stárima stárima stárima
plural
masculine feminine neuter
nominative stári stáre stára
genitive stárih stárih stárih
dative stárim stárim stárim
accusative stáre stáre stára
locative stárih stárih stárih
instrumental stárimi stárimi stárimi

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Further reading

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  • “star”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
  • “star”, in Termania, Amebis
  • See also the general references

Venetan

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Etymology

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From Latin stāre. Compare Italian stare.

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star

  1. (transitive) to stay or remain
  2. (transitive) to live (somewhere)

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* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Conjugation of star (first conjugation)
infinitive star
auxiliary verb èser gerund stando
past participle stà
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative mi ti eło / eła noialtri / noialtre voialtri / voialtre łuri / łore
present sto (te) sti (el/ła) sta stémo, stòn sté (i/łe) sta
imperfect stava (te) stavi (el/ła) stava stàvimo stavi (i/łe) stava
future starò (te) starè (el/ła) starà starémo starè (i/łe) starà
conditional starìa (te) starisi (el/ła) starìa starìsimo starisi (i/łe) starìa
subjunctive che mi che ti che eło / eła che noialtri / noialtre che voialtri / voialtre che łuri / łore
present ste, sta (te) sti (el/ła) ste, (el/ła) sta stémo, stone sté (i/łe) ste, (i/łe) sta
imperfect stase (te) stasi (el/ła) stase stàsimo stasi (i/łe) stase
imperative — ti eło / eła noialtri / noialtre voialtri / voialtre łuri / łore
— (te) sta (el/ła) sta, (el/ła) ste stémo sté (i/łe) sta, (i/łe) ste
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