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  1. noun A self-luminous celestial body consisting of a mass of gas held together by its own gravity in which the energy generated by nuclear reactions in the interior is balanced by the outflow of energy to the surface, and the inward-directed gravitational forces are balanced by the outward-directed gas and radiation pressures.
  2. noun Any of the celestial bodies visible at night from Earth as relatively stationary, usually twinkling points of light.
  3. noun Something regarded as resembling such a celestial body.
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  • This star is associated with the position of greatest CO excitation in a dense molecular cloud. —  Universe Today
  • As far as Ignatius appears to know, the star was the arrival of Jesus himself (not a mere sign of his birth or birthplace), it was brighter than even the sun, all the stars in heaven sang, and the whole world was astonished and agitated by all this. —  Richard Carrier Blogs
  • Later, a star was added to depict sovereignty and divinity. —  RenewAmerica
  • But the star is adamant she wants to reinvigorate some of her old tricks now she's a star. —  Entertainment - Female First
  • The problems started when Ghomeshi introduced the band, in which Thornton drums and sings, and noted the star was also an "Oscar-winning screenwriter-actor-director". —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
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  1. Middle English sterre, from Old English steorra; see ster-3 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. (a) from Middle English starre, sterre, storre, steorre (plural starres, sterres, steores, sterren, steorren), from Anglo-Saxon steorra = Old Saxon sterro = OFries. stera = Middle Dutch sterre, starre, Dutch ster, star = Middle Low German sterre = Old High German sterro, Middle High German sterre, a star; with formative -ra (perhaps orig. -na, -r-na being assimilated to -r-ra, the word being then orig. ult. identical with the next). (b) English dial. starn, stern, from Middle English stern, sterne (perhaps from Scandinavian) = Middle Dutch sterne = Middle Low German sterne, stern, Low German steern = Old High German sterno, Middle High German sterne (also Old High German Middle High German stern), German stern, from Icelandic stjarna = Swedish stjerna = Danish stjerne = Gothic (Moesogothic) stairno, a star; with a formative -na, -no (seen also in the orig. forms of sun and moon), from a base *ster; cf. Latin stella (for *sterula) (later Italian stella = Spanish Portuguese estrella = Old French estoile, French étoile), star, = Greek άστήρ (ἀστερ-), a star, ἀστρον (later L. astrum), usually in plural ἄστρα, the stars (with prothetic α-), = Cornish Breton steren = Welsh seren (for *steren) = Sanskrit tārā (for *stārā), a star, star, plural, the stars. = Zend star, star; root unknown. If, as has been often conjectured, star has a connection with √ star, strew, it must be rather as ‘strown’ or ‘sprinkled’ over the sky than as ‘sprinkler’ of light.
  2. from star, n.
  3. Also starr; Hebrew (Chaldee) shetar, shtar, a writing, deed, or contract, from shātar, cut in, grave, write.
 

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