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star-strewn

star-strewn adjective: covered with stars.

Adjective

star-strewn (comparative more star-strewn, superlative most star-strewn)

  1. Covered with stars.
    • What is the purpose of our feeble crying in the awful silences of space? Can our dim intelligence read the secrets of that star-strewn sky? Does any answer come out of it?1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

Forms of star-strewn

comparativemore star-strewn
superlativemost star-strewn

Questions about star-strewn

What does star-strewn mean?
Star-strewn means covered with stars.
What part of speech is star-strewn?
Star-strewn is an adjective.

Words near star-strewn in the dictionary

  1. star-shells
  2. star-shower
  3. star-showers
  4. star-sixty-nine
  5. Star-Spangled Banner
  6. star-strewn
  7. star-struck
  8. star-studded
  9. star-thistle
  10. star-thistles
  11. Star-Trekky

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