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starhood

starhood noun: the state of being a star (whether an astronomic object or a celebrity).

Noun

starhood (uncountable)

  1. The state of being a star (whether an astronomic object or a celebrity).
    • Brown dwarfs are much bigger than planets but not quite big enough to generate the internal pressure needed to burst into starhood.2002, Tom Siegfried, Strange Matters: Undiscovered Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and Time
    • Near those stars-to-be, other bodies, too low in mass ever to reach starhood, also began to form.2008, Mark Littmann, Fred Espenak, Ken Willcox, Totality: Eclipses of the Sun, page 289
    Synonyms:
    stardom

Synonyms of starhood

Origin of starhood

From star + -hood.

Questions about starhood

What does starhood mean?
Starhood means the state of being a star (whether an astronomic object or a celebrity).
What part of speech is starhood?
Starhood is a noun.

Words near starhood in the dictionary

  1. Stargells
  2. Stargels
  3. stargender
  4. stargrass
  5. stargrasses
  6. starhood
  7. Stari Grad
  8. Stari Jankovci
  9. Stari Mikanovci
  10. starier
  11. stariest

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