Need another word that means the same as “star”? Find 52 synonyms and 30 related words for “star” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Star” are: asterisk, star topology, ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, superstar, virtuoso, whizz, whiz, wiz, wizard, lead, principal, headliner, sun, leading lady, leading man, female lead, male lead, hero, heroine, celebrity, name, household name, somebody, someone, lion, leading light, celebutante, public figure, vip, personality, personage, notability, dignitary, worthy, grandee, luminary, panjandrum, horoscope, forecast, augury, leading, prima, starring, stellar
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “star” as a noun can have the following definitions:
ace | One of four playing cards in a deck having a single pip on its face. His hole in one at the 15th was Senior s second ace as a professional. |
adept | A person who is skilled or proficient at something. He is an adept at imitation. |
asterisk | A symbol (*) used in text as a pointer to an annotation or footnote. |
augury | An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come. They heard the sound as an augury of death. |
celebrity | The state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed. A celebrity chef. |
celebutante | A celebrity who is well known in fashionable society. |
champion | A person who backs a politician or a team etc. He became the determined champion of a free press. |
dignitary | An important or influential (and often overbearing) person. The guests included former shareholders, local dignitaries, and many of the people directly involved with the project. |
female lead | An animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa. |
forecast | A calculation or estimate of future events, especially coming weather or a financial trend. |
genius | An exceptionally intelligent person or one with exceptional skill in a particular area of activity. Boucher s paintings did not suit the austere genius of neoclassicism. |
grandee | A nobleman of highest rank in Spain or Portugal. Several City grandees and eminent lawyers. |
headliner | A performer who receives prominent billing. The idea was to place him as an opening act for a headliner in larger venues. |
hero | (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god. A war hero. |
heroine | The main good female character in a work of fiction. Jane Austen s heroines. |
horoscope | A short forecast for people born under a particular sign, especially as published in a newspaper or magazine. My horoscope said it was time to do something for myself so I phoned Georgia that evening. |
hotshot | Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field. Their latest hotshot recruit. |
household name | A social unit living together. |
lead | A position of leadership especially in the phrase take the lead. He took a long lead off first. |
leading lady | The activity of leading. |
leading light | The activity of leading. |
leading man | Thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing. |
lion | The lion as an emblem e g of English or Scottish royalty or as a charge in heraldry. |
luminary | A natural light-giving body, especially the sun or moon. One of the luminaries of child psychiatry. |
male lead | A person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies. |
maven | Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field. Fashion mavens call beige oatmeal. |
mavin | Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field. |
name | A reputation, especially a good one. The school has gained a name for excellence. |
notability | A famous or important person. The village enjoys a notability out of all relation to its size. |
panjandrum | A person who has or claims to have a great deal of authority or influence. The greatest scientific panjandrum of the 19th century. |
personage | A character in a play or other work. It was no less a personage than the bishop. |
personality | A person of considerable prominence. She has triumphed by sheer force of personality. |
principal | An actor who plays a principal role. Principals in general practice are self employed and controlled by their practice agreements. |
public figure | People in general considered as a whole. |
sensation | The capacity to have physical sensations. She was a sensation the talk of the evening. |
somebody | A human being. |
someone | A human being. |
star topology | A plane figure with 5 or more points; often used as an emblem. |
sun | The light or warmth received from the earth s sun. He watched the sun go down over the sea. |
superstar | An extremely famous and successful performer or sports player. He became a superstar overnight. |
vip | An important or influential (and often overbearing) person. |
virtuoso | Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field. A celebrated clarinet virtuoso. |
whizz | A whistling or buzzing sound made by something moving fast through the air. A quick whizz around the research and development facility. |
wiz | Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field. |
wizard | Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field. A financial wizard. |
worthy | A person notable or important in a particular sphere. Schools governed by local worthies. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “star” as a verb can have the following definitions:
asterisk | Mark a word or piece of text with an asterisk. He had asterisked the things about the case that still bothered him. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “star” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
leading | Having the leading position or higher score in a contest. The country s leading poet. |
prima | Indicating the most important performer or role. Prima donna. |
starring | Denoting a principal role or performer in a film, play, or other show. The starring role. |
stellar | Featuring or having the quality of a star performer or performers. A stellar cast had been assembled. |
asteroid | A small rocky body orbiting the sun. Large numbers of these, ranging enormously in size, are found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, though some have more eccentric orbits. |
astral | Relating to or resembling the stars. Spiritual beings from the astral plane. |
astrologer | Someone who predicts the future by the positions of the planets and sun and Moon. He was advised by astrologers to delay his departure. |
astrology | A pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon. |
astronomer | An expert in or student of astronomy. |
astronomical | Inconceivably large. He wanted an astronomical fee. |
astronomy | The branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole. |
comet | (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit. |
constellation | A group of associated or similar people or things. No two patients ever show exactly the same constellation of symptoms. |
cosmic | Inconceivably vast. The cosmic void. |
cosmos | Any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously colored flowers and pinnate leaves; popular fall-blooming annuals. He sat staring deep into the void reminding himself of man s place in the cosmos. |
equinox | Either of two times of the year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth’s equator and day and night are of equal length. |
galaxy | The galaxy of which the solar system is a part the Milky Way. The four musicians have played with a galaxy of stars. |
horoscope | A forecast of a person’s future, typically including a delineation of character and circumstances, based on the relative positions of the stars and planets at the time of that person’s birth. He gave lectures on astrology and cast horoscopes in his spare time. |
interstellar | Between or among stars. Interstellar travel. |
lunar | Of, determined by, or resembling the moon. A lunar eclipse. |
meteor | A streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth s atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode. |
meteorite | A piece of rock or metal that has fallen to the earth s surface from outer space as a meteor Over 90 per cent of meteorites are of rock while the remainder consist wholly or partly of iron and nickel. |
moon | Any object resembling a moon. Timothy s mooning over her like a schoolboy. |
observatory | A room or building housing an astronomical telescope or other scientific equipment for the study of natural phenomena. |
planetarium | An optical device for projecting images of celestial bodies and other astronomical phenomena onto the inner surface of a hemispherical dome. |
planetary | Relating to the earth as a planet. A planetary vagabond. |
pluto | The god of the underworld in ancient mythology; brother of Zeus and husband of Persephone. |
ray | Emit as rays. That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky. |
refract | Subject to refraction. Refract a light beam. |
sidereal | Of or relating to the stars or constellations. |
stellar | Featuring or having the quality of a star performer or performers. Stellar light. |
telescope | Crush (a vehicle) by the force of an impact. The sliding carriage escapes were telescoped into a shorter length. |
universe | All existing matter and space considered as a whole the cosmos The universe is believed to be at least 10 billion light years in diameter and contains a vast number of galaxies it has been expanding since its creation in the Big Bang about 13 billion years ago. The front parlour was the hub of her universe. |
virgo | A large zodiacal constellation on the equator; between Leo and Libra. |
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