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guest-star

guest-star is the alternative form of guest star.

Meaning of guest star

Noun (1)

guest star (plural guest stars)

  1. A guest on a music or other recording.
    • The neutering extends to Believe’s guest stars, with warm-and-fuzzy verses from Ludacris (“I love everything about you / You’re imperfectly perfect”), Big Sean (“I don’t know if this makes sense, but you’re my hallelujah”), Nicki Minaj (who at least squeaks a “bitches” into her verse), and...2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2020
  2. An actor on a television program who stars in one, or a few, episodes.

Noun (2)

guest star (plural guest stars)

  1. (historical) A nova or supernova recorded in Chinese astronomy which appeared where no star was known before.

See all 5 meanings of guest star

Forms of guest-star

Noun
pluralguest-stars
Verb
third-person singular presentguest-stars
present participleguest-starring
past participleguest-starred
pastguest-starred

Questions about guest-star

What is guest-star the alternative form of?
Guest-star is the alternative form of guest star.

Words near guest-star in the dictionary

  1. guest-houses
  2. guest-meal
  3. guest-meals
  4. guest-room
  5. guest-rooms
  6. guest-star
  7. guest-starred
  8. guest-starring
  9. guest-stars
  10. guest-worker
  11. guest-workers

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