# superstar
## English
### Etymology

From super- +‎ star.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈsuː.pəˌstɑː/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US, Canada) IPA: /ˈsu.pɚˌstɑɹ/
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈsʉː.pəˌstaː/

### Noun

superstar (plural superstars)
* Someone who has accumulated a vast amount of fame; a high-level celebrity.
* (corporate jargon) An exceptionally productive employee.
** 2014 November 17, Lizzie Widdicombe, “The Programmer's Price”, in The New Yorker‎, archived from the original on 2022-12-28:Want to hire a coding superstar? Call the agent.
** 2017 May 19, Hui Liao, “Career Coach: How to handle the new hotshot on your team”, in The Washington Post‎, archived from the original on 2020-08-28:Is your organization looking for its next new hire, that superstar performer to take things to the next level? Be careful: Organizations are greater than just one individual. If you're that superstar, remember to be a good team player. You'll feel better about your job and you'll perform at an even higher level.
** 2017 October 15, Tara Golshan, “Study finds 75 percent of workplace harassment victims experienced retaliation when they spoke up”, in Vox‎, archived from the original on 2023-02-11:"A superstar employee that is creating that toxic work environment is probably costing that company more than he or she is bringing in," Martin says.
** 2022 June 27, Ariel Shapira, “As 'Tindery' hiring dies down, Unboxable's AI steers companies toward retention”, in The Jerusalem Post‎, archived from the original on 2023-02-07:There's no sense in hiring a superstar developer who will quit after three months because she can't stand the management style or requires flexibility the hiring company doesn't offer.
* (rare, astronomy) A giant star.
** 1964, Life: Volume 56, No. 4‎, →ISBN, page 11:The greater an object's mass, the greater its gravitational force. If a star could attain a certain mass --- say a million to 100 million times the mass of our own sun --- then its gravity would become 100 times as powerful as the forces generated by the strongest known nuclear reactions. Such a super superstar, in a normal course of its evolution, would contract..
** 1975, Harold W. G. Allen, The Edge of the Universe: What is Our Destiny? Is There Life After Death? What Incredible Secret Lies in the Depths of Space?‎, Allen Book Pub., page 36:Toward the centre of the cluster, where they were more strongly congested, the whole region glowed as though as it were a monstrous superstar.
** 1979, Michael Zeilik, Astronomy: The Evolving Universe‎, Harper and Row, →ISBN, page 379:Perhaps a supermassive cluster can coalesce to form a superstar -- a star with a mass of 1 million to 100 million solar masses.

#### Related terms

* megastar
* superstardom

#### Translations
### References

* “superstar”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Anagrams

* pasturers, pretarsus, super-rats, superrats

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English superstar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sy.pɛʁ.staʁ/

### Noun

superstar f (plural superstars)
* superstar (person)

### Further reading

* “superstar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English superstar. By surface analysis, super- +‎ star.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /su.perˈstar/, /su.peˈstar/
* Rhymes: -ar
* Hyphenation: su‧per‧stàr

### Noun

superstar f (invariable)
* superstar, megastar

### References

* ↑ superstar in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English superstar.

### Noun

superstar n (plural superstaruri)
* superstar

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English superstar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌsupeɾesˈtaɾ/ [ˌsu.pe.ɾesˈt̪aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ

### Noun

superstar m or f by sense (plural superstars)
* superstar
    Synonym: superestrella
** 2007, El sueño de Morfeo, Mi columna de opinión:No soy una superstar aunque haya fotos en revistas y fansI'm not a superstar even if there are photos in magazines and fans

#### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.