megastar

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noun

A very famous or successful celebrity.

OriginEnglish star ← Middle English sterre ← Old English steorra →
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Meanings

nounmegastar (plural megastars)

plural megastars

  1. A very famous or successful celebrity.

    Instead, she has to carve new territory: a nontransgressive, rose-colored female pop megastar, the likes of which haven’t been seen in decades.

    2012 October 24, Jon Caramanica, “No More Kid Stuff for Taylor Swift”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2020

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*méǵh₂s
  2. Proto-Hellenic*mégas
  3. Ancient Greekμέγᾰς (mégăs)
  4. Englishmega-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*h₂eHs-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₂stḗr
  7. Proto-Germanic*sternǭ
  8. Proto-West Germanic*sternō
  9. Proto-West Germanic*sterrō
  10. Old Englishsteorra
  11. Middle Englishsterre
  12. Englishstar
  13. Englishmegastar

From mega- + star.

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APA

megastar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/megastar

MLA

“megastar.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/megastar. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “megastar,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/megastar.

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