# star
## English
### Etymology

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.
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).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /stɑː(ɹ)/
** Audio (London):(file)
** Audio (London):(file)
* (US) enPR: stär, IPA: /stɑɹ/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /staː(ɹ)/
* Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

### Noun

star (plural stars)
* Any small, natural and bright dot appearing in the unobscured sky, especially in the night or twilight sky.
* (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.
* (geometry) A concave polygon with regular, pointy protrusions and indentations, usually with four, five, or six points.
* (acting) An actor in a leading role.
    Many Hollywood stars attended the launch party.
* 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.
* (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: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:'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.'
* (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.
* A symbol used to rate hotels, films, etc. with a higher number of stars denoting better quality.
* 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.
* (astrology) A planet supposed to influence one's destiny.
    What's in the stars for you today? Find out in our horoscope.
** 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], page 112, column 2:But O malignant and ill-boading Starres, […]
** 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:Men bless their stars and call it luxury.
** 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 69–70:But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, […] . By the time we reached the house we were thanking our stars she had come.
* A star-shaped ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honour.
** 1852, Alfred Tennyson, “Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza 8, page 132:[…] on whom […] / Lavish Honour shower’d all her stars, […]
* A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in the air, presents a starlike appearance.
* (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.

#### Synonyms

* aster (obsolete)
* (astronomy): ✶ or ＊ (abbreviation), sun

#### Hypernyms

* (astronomy): celestial body

#### Hyponyms

* Ae star
* barium star
* Be star
* binary star
* blue hook star
* boson star
* carbon star
* clock star
* compact star
* dark star
* death star
* double star
* dwarf star
* early-type star
* exotic star
* faxed star
* fixed star
* flare star
* frozen star
* giant star
* guide star
* helium star
* infant star
* low mass star
* multiple star
* neutron star
* north star
* orphan star
* Planck star
* polar star, pole star
* proto-neutron star, protoneutron star
* protostar
* quadruple star
* quark star
* red giant
* reference star
* shell star
* shooting star
* single star
* superstar
* symbiotic star
* telescopic star
* trinary star
* triple star
* T Tauri star
* white dwarf
* Wolf-Rayet star
* Barnard's Star
* Dog Star
* Garnet Star
* North Star

#### Derived terms

* 5-star
* action star
* adult star
* aim for the stars
* all-star
* amylum star
* angstrom star
* antistar
* Argead star
* A star
* astar
* back-cloth star
* barn star
* barn-star
* barnstar
* bar star
* basket star
* bat star
* bearded star
* bestar
* binary star
* bistar
* black hole star
* blazingstar
* blazing star
* blitzar
* blue star
* bluestar
* bog star
* bold star
* bright and morning star
* brittle star
* Bronze Star
* Brunswick star
* Burmese star tortoise
* chemically peculiar star
* Christmas Star, Christmas star
* collapsar
* costar
* co-star
* count one's lucky stars
* daystar
* day star
* double star
* Druze star
* dwarf star
* earthstar
* enstar
* Eurostar
* evening star
* evenstar
* falling star
* faxed-star
* feather star
* field star
* film star
* five-star
* forest star
* gender star
* Georgian star
* Gold Star
* gold star
* gold star family
* gold star father
* gold star gay
* gold star lesbian
* gold star mother
* gold star parent
* gold star wife
* gravastar
* guest star
* guest-star
* guiding star
* hitch one's wagon to a star
* Hodge star
* Hubble's Star
* Indian star tortoise
* instar
* in the stars
* Kleene star
* late-type star
* lodestar
* lone star tick
* lucky star
* main-sequence star
* megastar
* Mexican star
* Michelin star
* Mittag-Leffler star
* Moravian star
* morning star
* movie star
* multiple star
* multistarrer
* my stars
* nanostar
* neutron star
* ninja star
* nonstar
* oh my stars
* one-star
* O star
* pole-star
* pop star
* porn star
* porn-star martini
* porn-star name
* prairie star
* promise the stars
* Provo all-star
* pseudostar
* pulsar
* quasi-star
* quasistar
* quintuple star system
* radio star
* reach for the stars
* Red Star
* rising star
* rock star
* rockstar
* rosy feather star
* runaway star
* sand star
* sea star
* seastar
* sea-star
* see stars
* semistar
* serpent star
* soapstar
* Sputnik star
* standard star
* star 69
* star-69
* star activity
* star anise
* star aniseed
* star apple
* star attraction
* star base
* Starbase
* starbase
* starbath
* starbathe
* starbeam
* star begonia
* star billing
* starbirth
* starbound
* starboy
* starburst
* star cactus
* starcast
* star chamber
* star chart
* starchitect
* starchitecture
* star city
* Star City
* star-city
* star clock
* star cloud
* star cluster
* star-cover
* starcraft
* star crossed
* star-crossed
* starcruiser
* star cucumber
* stardate
* stardock
* stardom
* stardrift
* star drive
* stardrive
* star-drive
* star duckweed
* stardust
* stareater
* star factory
* starfall
* starfaring
* starfield
* starfighter
* starfilled
* star finch
* starfish
* star fleet
* starflower
* star-forming
* star fort
* star frame
* starfrontlet
* starfruit
* star fruit
* starfuck
* star-fucker
* starfucker
* starfucking
* starful
* stargate
* Stargateverse
* star gauge
* stargaze
* stargazer
* star grass
* star height
* starhood
* star hyacinth
* star in the east
* Star Island
* star it
* star jasmine
* star jelly
* star jump
* starless
* starlet
* star lifting
* starlight
* starlighted
* starlike
* starliner
* starlit
* starlitten
* star lizard
* starlore
* starly
* star macromolecule
* star magnolia
* starmaker
* star-maker
* starmaking
* starman
* star mangrove
* star-map
* starmatter
* star meat
* starmonger
* starnose
* star-nosed mole
* star note
* star-of-Bethlehem
* Star of Bethlehem
* Star of David
* star-of-the-earth
* Star of the Sea
* star of Vergina
* star packer
* star pagoda
* star pass
* star picket
* star pine
* star plate
* star plot
* star polygon
* star polyhedron
* star polymer
* starport
* star prisoner
* star prize
* star projector
* starproof
* starquake
* star quality
* star quartz
* star-reed
* starrer
* star ring
* starrise
* starrish
* star rot
* star route
* star ruby
* starry
* starry-eyed
* stars align
* star sapphire
* stars are aligned
* starscape
* star schema
* Star Scout
* star sedge
* star seed
* starset
* starshade
* star shell
* starshine
* starship
* star shot
* star shower
* star-shower
* star sign
* stars in one's eyes
* star sixty-nine
* star-sixty-nine
* starsnout
* starspot
* starstone
* star stream
* star-strewn
* star-struck
* star-studded
* starstuff
* star system
* star the glaze
* starthistle
* star thistle
* star-thistle
* starthroat
* star topology
* star tracker
* startracker
* star trail
* Star Trek
* star-triangle relation
* star turn
* star up
* star vault
* star-vehicle
* star vehicle
* star vessel
* starviolet
* star violet
* star visitor
* starward
* starwards
* Star Wars
* starweed
* starwheel
* star wheel
* starwise
* star witness
* starwort
* strange quark star
* strange star
* substar
* sunflower sea star
* sunflower star
* sun star
* superstar
* technetium star
* television star
* thank one's lucky stars
* thank one's stars
* three-star
* three stars
* throwing star
* track star
* tristar
* under a lucky star
* under the stars
* unstar
* variable star
* venous star
* Vergina star
* very low mass star
* wandering star, wanderstar
* wish upon a star
* Wolfstar
* worm-star
* WTF Star
* zombie star

#### Related terms

* estoile
* étoile
* stella
* stellar

#### Descendants

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

#### See also

* Thesaurus:star

### Verb

star (third-person singular simple present stars, present participle starring, simple past and past participle starred)
* (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.
* (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.
* (transitive) To mark with a star or asterisk.
* (transitive) To set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies; to bespangle.
** 1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Ninth and Last. The Consolation. Containing, among Other Things, I. A Moral Survey of the Nocturnal Heavens. II. A Night-Address to the Deity. […]”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC, page 314:Thy gloomy Grandeurs (Nature’s moſt auguſt, / Inſpiring Aſpect!) claim a grateful Verſe; / And, like a ſable Curtain ſtarr’d with Gold, / Drawn o’er my Labours paſt, ſhall cloſe the Scene.
* (intransitive) To shine like a star.

#### Synonyms

* (to mark with an asterisk): asterisk

#### Translations
### See also

* astronomy
* black hole
* galaxy
* moon
* mullet
* planet

### Further reading

* star on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Stars on Wikiquote.Wikiquote

### Anagrams

* tars, sart, ARTS, arts., 'rats, tsar, tars-, ARTs, rats, Sart, srat, Srta., RATs, RAST, Arts, stra., Srta, arts, astr-, TSRA, RTAs, TRAs

## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stɑr/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: star
* Rhymes: -ɑr

### Adjective

star (comparative starder, superlative starst)
* stiff, frozen
* rigid

#### Derived terms

* halsstarrig
* starheid

### Further reading

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

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English star. Doublet of aster.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /staʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

star f (plural stars)
* star (celebrity)
    Elle est devenue star. ― She's become a star.

#### Derived terms

* stariser

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* arts, rats, tsar

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English star.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈstar/
* Rhymes: -ar
* Hyphenation: stàr

### Noun

star f (invariable)
* star (celebrity)

### Anagrams

* stra-, tras-

## Jamaican Creole
### Noun

star (plural star dem, quantified star)
* A friend, a mate, a pal
** 2008 August 26, “Kill Dem” (track 9), in Most Wanted‎, 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”‎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
### Alternative forms

* stara

### Etymology

From Arabic سِتَار (sitār).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /staːr/
* Rhymes: -aːr

### Noun

star m (plural stari)
* veil
    Synonym: (commoner) velu

## Mirandese
### Etymology

From Latin stāre.

### Verb

star
* to be (indicates a temporary state)

### See also

* ser

## Northern Kurdish
### Etymology

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).

### Noun

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

#### Synonyms

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

#### Derived terms

* star kirin ("to protect")
* star lê hatin ("to find the strength to, to find the courage to")
* stargeh ("refuge")
* sitirîn ("to calm down, to mellow down, to stay put")

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

star m (definite singular staren, indefinite plural starar, definite plural starane)
* alternative form of stare

### Noun

star m (definite singular staren, indefinite plural starar, definite plural starane)
* (pre-2012) alternative form of stær

## Portuguese
### Verb

star (first-person singular present stou, first-person singular preterite stive, past participle stado)
* Obsolete spelling of estar.

#### Conjugation

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English star. Doublet of aster and stea.

### Noun

star n (plural staruri)
* star (famous person)

#### Declension
## Sabir
### Etymology

From Italian stare (“to be”).

### Verb

star
* to be

### References

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

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *starъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stâr/

### Adjective

stȁr (Cyrillic spelling ста̏р, definite stȃrī, comparative stàrijī)
* old
    Antonym: mlad

#### Derived terms

* prastar

### Further reading

* “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
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *starъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stár/

### Adjective

stȁr (comparative starȇjši, superlative nȁjstarȇjši)
* old, aged
    Antonym: mlad
    Star sem dvajset let. ― I'm twenty years old.

#### Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

#### Derived terms

* prestàr

### Further reading

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

## Venetan
### Etymology

From Latin stāre. Compare Italian stare.

### Verb

star
* (transitive) to stay or remain
* (transitive) to live (somewhere)

#### Conjugation

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