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starbursts

starbursts is the plural of starburst.

starbursts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of starburst.

Meaning of starburst

Noun

starburst (plural starbursts)

  1. A violent explosion, or the pattern (likened to the shape of a star) supposed to be made by such an explosion.
    • […] his arm striking brick and the bottle shattering in a starburst of black […]2002, Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror
  2. A symbol similar to an asterisk, but with additional rays: ✺.
  3. A region of space with an unusually high rate of star formation.
  4. A period in time during which a region of space experiences an unusually high rate of star formation.
    • The Milky Way will see a starburst in approximately 200,000,000 years.

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Questions about starbursts

What is starbursts the plural of?
Starbursts is the plural of starburst.

Words near starbursts in the dictionary

  1. starburst displays
  2. starburst galaxies
  3. starburst galaxy
  4. starbursted
  5. starbursting
  6. starbursts
  7. starcast
  8. starcasts
  9. starch
  10. starch generator
  11. starch generators

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Adapted from Wiktionary: starbursts (page history and authors); starburst (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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