Noun

(en noun)

Any small luminous dot appearing in the cloudless portion of the night sky, especially with a fixed location relative to other such dots.

(star) A luminous celestial body, made up of plasma (particularly hydrogen and helium) and having a spherical shape. Depending on context the sun may or may not be included.

(geometry) A concave polygon with regular, pointy protrusions and indentations, generally with five or six points.

(acting) An actor in a leading role.

An exceptionally talented or famous person, often in a specific field; a celebrity.

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Star reporter, leg-man, cub, veteran gray in the trade—one and all they tried to pin the Bat like a caught butterfly to the front page of their respective journals—soon or late each gave up, beaten. He was news——the brief, staccato recital of his career in the morgues of the great dailies grew longer and more incredible each day.

(printing) An asterisk ().

A symbol used to rate hotels, films, etc. with a higher number of stars denoting better quality.

A simple dance, or part of a dance, where a group of four dancers each put their right or left hand in the middle and turn around in a circle. You call them right-hand stars or left-hand stars, depending on the hand which is in the middle.

(astrology) A planet supposed to influence one's destiny.

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O malignant and ill-brooding stars .

* (Joseph Addison)

Blesses his stars , and thinks it luxury.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,

A star-shaped ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honour.

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On whom / Lavish Honour showered all her stars .

A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in the air, presents a starlike appearance.

Noun

(wikipedia world)

Human collective existence; existence in general.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2

, passage=The world' was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the ' world , and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed. As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=9 citation , passage=Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Towards the end of poverty , passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}

The Universe.

The Earth.

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Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world , and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner

, title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close

(lb) A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.

* 2007 September 27, Marc Rayman (interviewee), “ NASA's Ion-Drive Asteroid Hunter Lifts Off”, National Public Radio :

I think many people think of asteroids as kind of little chips of rock. But the places that Dawn is going to really are more like worlds .

An individual or group perspective or social setting.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world , buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}

(lb) A great amount.