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barn-star

barn-star is the alternative spelling of barnstar.

Meaning of barnstar

Noun

barnstar (plural barnstars)

  1. A decorative painted object or image, often in the shape of a five-pointed star but occasionally in a circular wagon-wheel style, used to adorn a barn.
  2. A lucky charm resembling a star plate, similar to a horseshoe
  3. An image posted on a wiki user's personal page by another user, as an informal award or form of recognition.
    • There are many different Wikipedia barnstars that connote different things.2008, Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, →ISBN, Notes: Chapter 6, page 290

Forms of barn-star

pluralbarn-stars

Questions about barn-star

What is barn-star the alternative spelling of?
Barn-star is the alternative spelling of barnstar.

Words near barn-star in the dictionary

  1. barn-door
  2. barn-doors
  3. barn-like
  4. barn-raising
  5. barn-raisings
  6. barn-star
  7. barn-stars
  8. Barna
  9. Barnabas
  10. Barnabite
  11. Barnabites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: barn-star (page history and authors); barnstar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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