gold star families
gold star families is the plural of gold star family.
Meaning of gold star family
Noun
gold star family (plural gold star families)
- the immediate family of a U.S. soldier who was killed in action.
- And when he came down with a life-threatening case of Covid, he suggested that he might have caught it from Gold Star families he had met with after his positive test — that is, he blamed people he himself had callously endangered.2021 December 7, Paul Krugman, “Where Have All the Grown-ups Gone?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Questions about gold star families
- What is gold star families the plural of?
- Gold star families is the plural of gold star family.
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