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star

  • noun
  • stär

Any small, natural and bright dot in the sky, most visible in the night or twilight sky. This sense includes the planets, but it is now sometimes used in exclusion of them due to influence from the technical astronomical sense.

Example

“He loved watching the stars in the sky with her.”

Other meanings

  1. A planet thought to influence one's fate; (figuratively) fate or luck.

  2. A very massive ball of plasma with strong enough gravity to have ongoing fusion of hydrogen or heavier elements in its core. In strict technical usage, the Sun is included.

Example sentences

  • “An accretion disk has formed around the star.”

    Tatoeba · hecko · CC0

  • “We used to be parts of stars.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

  • “The stars reflected in the calm water.”

    Tatoeba · Igider · CC0

Word history

From Old English "steorra".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “star” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.