Definition of Stars

1. Noun. (plural of star) ¹

2. Noun. (context: with “the”) Outer space. ¹

3. Verb. (third-person singular of star) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stars

1. star [v] - See also: star

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stars

starquakes
starred
starrier
starriest
starrily
starriness
starrinesses
starring
starring(p)
starrings
starrs
starry
starry-eyed
starry saxifrage
starry sturgeon
stars (current term)
stars in one's eyes
starscape
starscapes
starshade
starshades
starshine
starship
starships
starspot
starspots
starstone
starstones
starstruck
starstuff

Literary usage of Stars

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Orion and helium stars are followed in development by the white stars of ... Increased absorption at the violet end of the spectrum gives the red stars of ..."

2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1909)
"stars —Continued. Colors of some of the stars in the globular Stanhope, Roddam Spencer- .... stars, Orbits of. Kenned astronomical researches, with a simple ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Number of stars.— The whole number of stars in the heavens, ... Practically, it is not likely that more than 2000 stars can ever be seen at once by the best ..."

4. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"differ greatly from the diagrams of galactic dusters aad nearby stars. The main sequence does not exist in any globular cluster for stars of types О, ..."

5. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"Pop Astron 25:359-71 Je '17 Ptolemy's catalogue of stars, a revision of the Almagest, ... Nature 101:233-4 My 23 '18 On the distribution of stars in twelve ..."

6. The Sun by Amédée Guillemin (1875)
"What is the position of the Sun in the world ot stars—The Milky Way . its form ... As it is one of the stars which comprise this universe, has it not some ..."

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