STARS Synonyms: 91 Similar and Opposite Words

stars

noun

plural of star

as in galaxies

a ball-shaped gaseous celestial body that shines by its own light it's difficult to see the stars at night in the middle of the city because of all the streetlights

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as in principals

the person who has the most important role in a play, movie, or TV show when the star of the school play came down with the flu on opening night, her understudy got to go on

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as in celebrities

a person who is widely known and usually much talked about the public's endless fascination with stars

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Recent Examples of stars Today’s Hollywood stars — Taylor Russell, Greta Lee, Anya Taylor-Joy, Alison Oliver, Jisoo, Maude Apatow, Jeff Goldblum, Sabrina Carpenter, to name a few — were in attendance. —

Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2026 The Ducks have high-ceiling youngsters blossoming into stars who should be the nucleus of future playoff teams. —

Eric Stephens, New York Times, 15 May 2026 There’s nothing new about Hollywood adaptations featuring profoundly good-looking people, but film stars used to be made to look a bit more… regular, particularly before plastic surgery made the faces of so many A-list actresses look eerily similar. —

Literary Hub, 14 May 2026 Still, very few modern pop stars are doing what Mars is doing in making seemingly timeless music with such broad appeal. —

Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 14 May 2026 The Super Bowl is famed for its halftime show - attracting the world's biggest stars for spectacular performances. —

ABC News, 14 May 2026 Global stars for the global game Shakira is widely considered as the most successful Latin artist of all time. —

Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 14 May 2026 Huppert stars in Parallel Lives as Sylvie, an author who in search of inspiration for her new novel spies on her neighbors (Vincent Cassel, Virginie Efira, Pierre Niney) across the street. —

Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 14 May 2026 Here is a guide to the wellness retreats and hotels owned or co-owned by familiar names — what each property is known for and how the stars got involved. —

Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2026

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Noun

In Rubin’s first year alone, scientists expect the observatory to find 1 million undiscovered asteroids — as many as have been documented in the previous 200 years of human history — as well as thousands of comets and billions of stars and galaxies.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2026
And Rubin will discover much more than TNOs, too, by virtue of its emphasis on time-domain astronomy—the study of objects such as asteroids, novae, supernovae and active galaxies that move and vary in brightness.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 15 May 2026