a gold or bronze star worn on the ribbon of a decoration or medal to represent a second or subsequent award of the same decoration or medal.
b.
a silver star worn in place of five gold or bronze stars.
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a white spot on the forehead of a horse.
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Heraldry. a mullet.
–adjective
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celebrated, prominent, or distinguished; preeminent: a star basketball player; a star reporter.
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of or pertaining to a star or stars.
–verb (used with object)
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to set with or as with stars; spangle.
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to feature as a star: an old movie starring Rudolph Valentino.
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to mark with a star or asterisk, as for special notice.
–verb (used without object)
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to shine as a star; be brilliant or prominent.
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(of a performer) to appear as a star: He starred in several productions of Shaw's plays.
—Idioms
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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.
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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: bef. 900; ME sterre, OE steorra; c. OHG sterra; akin to OHG sterno, ON stjarna, Goth stairno, L stella, Gk astr, Skt stṛ
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.
[stahr] 
,noun, adjective, verb, starred, star⋅ring.
r, Skt stṛ