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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of superlative quality.

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Examples

  • Now, of course, some of the top recruits, the so-called four-star and five-star prospects, have already announced where they will be, uh ... matriculating.

    News 2012

  • Now, of course, some of the top recruits, the so-called four-star and five-star prospects, have already announced where they will be, uh ... matriculating.

    News 2012

  • Now, of course, some of the top recruits, the so-called four-star and five-star prospects, have already announced where they will be, uh ... matriculating.

    News 2012

  • Just before one p.m., the driver pulls up in front of the four-star hotel that Jerez insisted on booking for her from Sevilla.

    Claudia Ricci: Seeing Red: Her Lover is Quite the "Snake" Claudia Ricci 2011

  • Just before one p.m., the driver pulls up in front of the four-star hotel that Jerez insisted on booking for her from Sevilla.

    Claudia Ricci: Seeing Red: Her Lover is Quite the "Snake" Claudia Ricci 2011

  • It includes two promising quarterbacks, some productive receivers and a four-star running back.

    Oklahoma State - Team Notes 2010

  • While the heavy U.S. troop presence in Iraq between 2003-2008 created a large number of three- and four-star generals with extensive command experience in that country, the pool is much smaller in Afghanistan.

    Clinton to announce new 'AfPak' envoy Karen DeYoung 2011

  • McChrystal retired from the Army a month later, with the White House allowing him to keep his status as a four-star general.

    Gen. McChrystal to oversee White House initiative 2011

  • But some senior Pentagon officials worry that he lacks the media and political savvy needed for the four-star job in Afghanistan and it does not appear likely at the moment that he will take over for Petraeus.

    Clinton to announce new 'AfPak' envoy Karen DeYoung 2011

  • Gen. Petraeus, the agency's fifth director in eight years, is the four-star general who led allied troops in Afghanistan, steeped in a culture that confers authority with the insignia on an officer's uniform.

    Mr. Insider Will Guide Petraeus at the CIA Siobhan Gorman 2011

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