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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Marked or set with stars or starlike objects.
  2. adj. Shining or glittering like stars.
  3. adj. Shaped like a star.
  4. adj. Illuminated by stars; starlit.
  5. adj. Of, relating to, or coming from the stars; stellar.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Abounding with stars; adorned with stars.
  2. Consisting of or proceeding from stars; stellar; stellary: as, starry light; starry flame.
  3. Shining like stars; resembling stars: as, starry eyes.
  4. Stellate or stelliform; radiate; having parts radiately arranged.
  5. Pertaining to or in some way associated with the stars.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Having stars visible.
  2. adj. Shaped like a star.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Abounding with stars; adorned with stars.
  2. adj. Consisting of, or proceeding from, the stars; stellar; stellary.
  3. adj. Shining like stars; sparkling.
  4. adj. Arranged in rays like those of a star; stellate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. abounding with or resembling stars

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