star – English noun declension

English noun forms of star

Noun: star
Singularstar
Pluralstars

Sample Sentences

  • He loved watching the stars in the sky with her.
  • What's in the stars for you today? Find out in our horoscope.
  • star-crossed (meaning 'ill-fated')
  • But O malignant and ill-boading Starres,[…] [1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], page 112, column 2:]
  • Men bless their stars and call it luxury. [1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:]
  • But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,[…]. By the time we reached the house we were thanking our stars she had come. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 69–70:]
  • Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics. [1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714:]
  • […]on whom […] / Lavish Honour shower’d all her stars,[…] [1852, Alfred Tennyson, “Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza 8, page 132:]
  • three-star general
  • And the first music review I remember reading was in Rolling Stone, which rated albums on a scale of one to five stars, or so I thought. In 1990, the début solo album by Andrew Ridgeley, who had sung alongside George Michael in the pop duo Wham!, was awarded only half a star. [2025 August 25, Kelefa Sanneh, “How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:]
  • Many Hollywood stars attended the launch party.
  • His teacher tells us he is a star pupil.
  • I met my favourite star at the public event.
  • The king who had worn her colours was dead and gone; the court of which she had been a star had passed away; powerful functionaries and great magistrates, who might perhaps have helped her, were mouldering in their graves; […] [1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret:]
  • 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. [1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, “The Shadow of the Bat”, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 8:]
  • Known for an unerring attention to detail, poetic use of materials, and intuitive sensitivity to scale, Thulstrup has long been a star in his native Denmark. [2026 May 26, Sam Cochran, “Feeling Zen”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 100:]
  • someone's star is rising / has risen
  • It’s only in hindsight that I’m able to appreciate just how high my star had risen. I’d gone from being the student who couldn’t speak in class to being the teacher of the language of a new age, from the child of modest, middle-class Beltway parents to the man living the island life and making so much money that it had lost its meaning. [2019 September 17, Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:]
  • "Wha'ppen, star!" Hector said, grinning to reveal a gold-capped tooth. He told everyone it was solid twenty-four carat, but if it was, he would have wrenched it out with pliers to pawn to the highest bidder by now. [2003, Michael Maynard, Games Men Play, page 127:]
  • Hello claat, what you doing spar?[…]It's got three ring tones, that's the name for the ring. There's this one, right (ring tone sounds). That's fucking safe, spar. But mostly, I bought it for this, check this one out, claat! [2003, “Soap Bar”, in The Manifesto, performed by Goldie Looking Chain:]
  • Switches character to the street-wise Ragamuffin, speaking out of the corner of his mouth in Creole: "Whappen now star! Seckle, seckle now people! Cool, cool na baass! [what is happening friends? Settle down] [2017, Les Back, New Ethnicities and Urban Culture: Racisms and Multiculture in Young Lives:]
  • 'Dey ain't mine,' Stacey snapped, flicking her head towards the yutes in the bedroom. 'I'm juss lookin after dem fi mi fren dem. I only av six pickney by tree men enuh, star.' [2022, Moses McKenzie, An Olive Grove in Ends:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr
5. Proto-Germanic *sternǭ
6. Proto-West Germanic *sternō
7. Proto-West Germanic *sterrō
8. Old English steorra
9. Middle English sterre
10. English star
11. From Middle English sterre, from Old English steorra (“star”), from Proto-West Germanic *sterrō, variant of *sternō, from Proto-Germanic *sternô, *sternǭ (“star”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr (“star”). Doublet of aster; related to estoile, étoile, stella, and stelo.
12. Cognates
13. Cognate with Scots starn, ster (“star”), Yola starr, steor (“star”), Saterland Frisian Stiern (“star”), West Frisian stjer (“star”), Cimbrian stèrn (“star”), Dutch ster (“star”), German Stern (“star”), Luxembourgish Stär (“star”), Mòcheno stern (“star”), Vilamovian śtaom (“star”), Yiddish שטערן (shtern, “star”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål stjerne (“star”), Faroese stjørna (“star”), Gutnish stjännå (“star”), Icelandic stjarna (“star”), Norwegian Nynorsk skjødna, stjerne (“star”), Swedish stjärna (“star”), Crimean Gothic stein (“star”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐍉 (stairnō, “star”), French étoile (“star”), Istriot stila (“star”), Istro-Romanian ste (“star”), Italian stella (“star”), Megleno-Romanian steau̯ă (“star”), Mirandese streilha (“star”), Occitan estela (“star”), Portuguese estrela (“star”), Romansh staila (“star”), Romanian stea (“star”), Sardinian isteddu (“star”), Sicilian stidda (“star”), Spanish estrella (“star”), Venetan stéła (“star”), Walloon sitoele (“star”), Latin stēlla (“star”), Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”), Greek αστέρι (astéri, “star”), Old Armenian աստղ (astł, “star”), Persian ستاره (setâre, “star”), Tajik ситора (sitora, “star”), Pashto ستوری (storay, “star”), Mazanderani اساره (ëssâre, “star”), Northern Kurdish stêr (“star”), Central Kurdish ئەستێرە (estêre, “star”), Zazaki astare (“star”), Ossetian стъалы (st’aly, “star”), Hindi तारा (tārā, “star”), Urdu تارا (tārā, “star”), Punjabi ਤਾਰਾ (tārā, “star”), Gujarati તારો (tāro, “star”), Sanskrit तारा (tārā, “star”). See: Middle English Nouns 'sterre', Old English Nouns 'steorra', Dutch Nouns 'ster', German Nouns 'Stern', Faroese Nouns 'stjørna', Icelandic Nouns 'stjarna', Swedish Nouns 'stjärna', Gothic Nouns '𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐍉', French Nouns 'étoile', Italian Nouns 'stella', Portuguese Nouns 'estrela', Romanian Nouns 'stea', Spanish Nouns 'estrella', Latin Nouns 'stēlla', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ἀστήρ', Greek Nouns 'αστέρι'.

Verbs referencing "star"

French Nouns star, Romanian Nouns star, German Nouns Stern, Ancient Greek Nouns ἀστήρ, Finnish Nouns stara, Danish Nouns stjerne, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns stjerne, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns stjerne.