Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or consisting of stars.
- adj. Of or relating to a star performer.
- adj. Outstanding; principal.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to stars; astral: as, stellar worlds; stellar space; stellar regions.
Wiktionary
- adj. astronomy Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of stars.
- adj. Heavenly.
- adj. Exceptional; wonderful.
GNU Webster's 1913
WordNet 3.0
- adj. indicating the most important performer or role
- adj. being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars
Etymologies
- From Latin stellaris. (Wiktionary)
- Late Latin stēllāris, from Latin stēlla, star; see ster-3 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“As being consistent with the unit of distance, I have proposed for the stellar unit of time a _stellar year_”
“Ms. Warren, who lured Mr. Cordray to the CFPB, threw her support behind what she called a "stellar" choice.”
The Wall Street Journal: Bank Challenger Picked to Run Consumer Agency
“Under these circumstances, at the present time, which we referred to as a stellar moment of the revolution, we are commemorating Peasants Day.”
“And so what happens is that these heavy elements have what we call stellar winds; quite strong stellar winds.”
“Our country could be in stellar condition and the Republicans would be complaining! rhoward”
“Beasley tops in stellar freshman class, but now what?”
“Using two celebrities (Britney and Paris) whose behavior was famously far from stellar is dishonest.”
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“- London Free Press There is also a wonderful, detailed book about this time call "36 Days" written by correspondents from the New York Times Back to recount, the buzz is that all the principle characters put in stellar performances.”
“Rob Harrington: Beasley tops in stellar freshman class, but now what?”
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“One person who might be stellar is Scott Westerfeld.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stellar’.
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bbc uk china vocab.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
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Kalli's Words
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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dandy's list
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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petulant, vehement, pensive, lascivious, vacillate, histrionic, satiated, svelte, lithe, zeitgeist, viscous, sommelier and 526 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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bash, poleaxed, salacious, libertine, charlatan, aplomb, fortuitous, finagle, apoplectic, debutante, carte blanche, aardvark and 472 more...
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GRE AWA
escalating, vehement, vehemence, hostility, paparazzi, regime, irrespective, scoop, exaggerated, overblown, unfetter, scrupulous and 272 more...
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collection
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je les adore!
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Palabras
Awesome Words, any awesome words. In any language.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for stellar.
reesetee What the...? May 16, 2008
bilby WeirdNET's been at grammar school this week. May 16, 2008
reesetee It's truly a stellar word. :-) Oct 25, 2007
ambutterfly this may be one of my favorite words Oct 25, 2007