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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 raisings
  2. barn red
  3. barn reds
  4. barn sale
  5. barn sales
  6. barn star
  7. barn stars
  8. barn swallow
  9. barn swallows
  10. barn-burning
  11. barn-door

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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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