" stars "

[Verb]  | "star" 

1: to play the most prominent or important role in a movie, play, etc.

2: to feature (a performer) in the most prominent or important role

3: to perform outstandingly

Origin: 1592 ;

 Derivative of {see: |star:1|star:1};

[Noun]  | "star" | \ ˈstär \

1: a natural luminous body visible in the sky especially at night

2: a self-luminous gaseous spheroidal celestial body of great mass which produces energy by means of nuclear fusion reactions

3: a planet or a configuration of the planets that is held in astrology to influence one's destiny or fortune —usually used in plural

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English sterre, stere "star, planet, constellation," going back to Old English steorra (Northumbrian stearra), masculine weak noun, going back to a Germanic n-stem paradigm *sterōn (nominative), *sterraz (genitive), going back to pre-Germanic *h2stér-ōn, *h2ster-n-ós (whence also Old Frisian stēra "star," Old Saxon & Old High German sterro, Middle Dutch sterre, and, with reintroduction of *-rn- from oblique forms with presumed initial stress, Middle Dutch sterne "star," Old High German sterno, Old Icelandic stjarna, Gothic stairno), going back to Indo-European *h2ster- "star," whence, with varying thematizations, Old Irish ser "star" (attested once), Welsh sêr "stars" (singular seren), Old Breton sterenn "star," Greek aster-, astḗr "star (usually in reference to a particular heavenly body)," ástra "stars" (with a secondary singular ástron), Tocharian A śreñ "stars," Tocharian B ścirye "star," Sanskrit stār- (nominative plural tā́raḥ, instrumental plural stṛ́bhiḥ), Avestan star-, Hittite ḫašter-; with a suffixal -l- Latin stēlla "star, heavenly body" (perhaps < *stēr(e)lā), Armenian astł (perhaps < *h2stēr-l-);

  * Note : The etymon *h2ster- is attested in all major subfamilies of Indo-European, with the apparent exception of Balto-Slavic and Albanian. The original paradigm can be reconstructed as *h2stḗr (nominative), *h2stér-m̥ (accusative), *h2str-ó-s (genitive); it is preserved best in Greek. The Germanic forms show the action of Kluge's Law (to those who accept it), according to which *-rn- is reduced to a geminate *-rr- before an accented syllable. The original *-rn- has found its way back into the base form in North and East Germanic, but only partially in West Germanic (it is lacking completely in Anglo-Frisian). The Indo-European etymology can be carried further, if the base *h2ster- is see:n as a reduction of *h2h1ster-, an agentive derivative of *h2eh1s- "burn, make dry with heat" (see: {arid|arid}); the star would hence the thing that burns or glows (see: D. Adams, A Dictionary of Tocharian B, Revised and Greatly Enlarged [Rodopi, 2013], p. 701). A different and less straightforward derivation is proposed by G.-J. Pinault ("A Star Is Born: A 'New' PIE *-ter- Suffix," A.J. Nussbaum, editor, Verba Docenti [Ann Arbor, 2007], pp. 271-79). Earlier proposals that see: the origin of the Indo-European star etymon in the names of Semitic deities of the morning and evening star (Phoenician *‛aštart, rendered by the Greeks as Astártē; Akkadian ištar) now see:m improbable.;

[Noun]  | "Stars and Bars" 

1: the first flag of the Confederate States of America having three bars of red, white, and red respectively and a blue union with white stars in a circle representing the seceded states

Origin: 1861 ;

[Noun]  | "Stars and Stripes" 

1: the flag of the United States having 13 alternately red and white horizontal stripes and a blue union with white stars representing the states

Origin: 1809 ;

[Idiom]  | "(have) stars in one's eyes" 

1: to be very hopeful and excited about something and think that it will be much better or more enjoyable than it actually is

[Idiom]  | "in the stars" 

1: going to happen

[Idiom]  | "reach for the stars" 

1: to try to do something that is very difficult and impressive

[Idiom]  | "see stars" 

1: to see flashes of light usually because one has been hit on the head

[Idiom]  | "thank one's lucky stars" 

1: to be very grateful

[Plural noun]  | "the Stars and Stripes" 

1: the flag of the United States

[Noun]  | "stars" 

[Noun]  | "star" 

[Noun]  | "neutron stars" 

[Noun]  | "red stars" 

[Noun]  | "fixed stars" 

[Noun]  | "binary stars" 

[Noun]  | "rising stars" 

[Noun]  | "giant stars" 

[Noun]  | "variable stars" 

[Verb]  | "stars (in)"