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starhood - What does it mean?

Definition of 'starhood'

English

Noun

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  • The state of being a star (whether an astronomic object or a celebrity).
  • *2002 , Tom Siegfried, Strange Matters: Undiscovered Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and Time
  • *:Brown dwarfs are much bigger than planets but not quite big enough to generate the internal pressure needed to burst into starhood .
  • *2008 , Mark Littmann, Fred Espenak and Ken Willcox, Totality: Eclipses of the Sun , page 289
  • *:Near those stars-to-be, other bodies, too low in mass ever to reach starhood , also began to form.
  • *2009 , Peter Benjaminson, The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard , page 169
  • *:It was the only image of the funeral most people saw, making the occasion an emblem of Diana's starhood rather than a celebration of Florence's life and a scene of mourning for her death.
  • Synonyms

    * (the state of being a celebrity) stardom