Meanings
adjectivestar-strewn (comparative more star-strewn, superlative most star-strewn)
comparative more star-strewn · superlative most star-strewn
- 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
Translations
German sternenübersät, sternenbedeckt
- sternenübersätcovered with stars
- sternenbedecktcovered with stars
Polish gwiaździsty, rozgwieżdżony
- gwiaździstycovered with stars
- rozgwieżdżonycovered with stars
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