Meanings
- uncountableThe state of being a star (whether an astronomic object or a celebrity).
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 2892 more examples
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 TimeIt was the only image of the funeral most people saw, making the occasion an emblem of Diana's starhood rather than a celebration of Florence's life and a scene of mourning for her death.
2009, Peter Benjaminson, The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard, page 169Synonyms: stardom
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state of being a star (whether an astronomic object or a celebrity).
Origin
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