Idioms for star

    make someone see stars, to deal someone a severe blow causing the illusion of brilliant streaks of light before the eyes: The blow on the head made him see stars, and the next thing he knew he was in the hospital.
    thank one's lucky stars, to acknowledge one's good fortune; be grateful: Instead of complaining about hospital bills she should thank her lucky stars she's still alive. Also thank one's stars.

Origin of star

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

OTHER WORDS FROM star

star·less, adjective

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British Dictionary definitions for star

star
/ (stɑː) /

noun

verb stars, starring or starred

(tr) to mark or decorate with a star or stars
to feature or be featured as a star ``Greed'' starred Erich von Stroheim; Olivier starred in ``Hamlet''

Derived forms of star

starless, adjective starlike, adjective

Word Origin for star

Old English steorra; related to Old Frisian stēra, Old Norse stjarna, German Stern, Latin stella

Scientific definitions for star

star
[ stär ]

A large, spherical celestial body consisting of a mass of gas that is hot enough to sustain nuclear fusion and thus produce radiant energy. Stars begin their life cycle as clouds of gas and dust called nebulae and develop, through gravitation and accretion, into increasingly hot and dense protostars. In order to reach the temperature at which nuclear reactions are ignited (about 5 million degrees K), a protostar must have at least 80 times the mass of Jupiter. For most of its life a star fuses hydrogen into helium in its core, during which period it is known as a dwarf star and is classed according to its surface temperature and luminosity (or spectral type) on a continuum called the main sequence in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. When a star exhausts the hydrogen in its core, it typically develops into one of several non-main-sequence forms depending on how massive it is. Smaller stars, with masses less than eight times that of the Sun, become red giants and end their lives, after blowing away their outer layers, as white dwarfs. More massive stars become supergiants and end their lives, after exploding in a supernova, as either a neutron star or ablack hole.
Any of the celestial bodies visible to the naked eye at night as fixed, usually twinkling points of light, including binary and multiple star systems.

Cultural definitions for star

star

An object in the sky that sends out its own light, generated by nuclear reactions in its center. There are many billions of stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way.

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Our own sun is a medium-sized star.

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Each star has a definite lifetime and dies when it uses up its supply of fuel. ( See black hole, neutron star, supernova, and white dwarf.)

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All chemical elements heavier than helium are created in the center of stars and are returned to space when the star dies.

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New stars are forming constantly.

Idioms and Phrases with star

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