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- [stahr]
- /stɑr/
- /stɑːr/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [stahr]
- /stɑr/
Definitions of stars word
- noun stars any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night. 1
- noun stars Astronomy. any of the large, self-luminous, heavenly bodies, as the sun, Polaris, etc. 1
- noun stars any heavenly body. 1
- noun stars Astrology. a heavenly body, especially a planet, considered as influencing humankind and events. 1
- noun stars a person's destiny, fortune, temperament, etc., regarded as influenced and determined by the stars. 1
- noun stars a conventionalized figure usually having five or six points radiating from or disposed about a center. 1
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Origin of stars
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English sterre, Old English steorra; cognate with Old High German sterra; akin to Old High German sterno, Old Norse stjarna, Gothic stairno, Latin stella, Greek astḗr, Sanskrit stṛ
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Parts of speech for Stars
noun
adjective
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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stars popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 99% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
stars usage trend in Literature
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verb stars
- circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
- cupped — hollowed like a cup; concave
- cupping — the process of applying a cupping glass to the skin
- dooming — fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune: In exile and poverty, he met his doom.
- lotted — one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
noun stars
Top questions with stars
- who won dancing with the stars?