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ˈsuperstar
[super- 6 c.]
1. An outstanding performer in the theatre, music, sport, etc.; something exceptionally successful, advanced, etc. Freq. attrib.
1925W. Deeping Sorrell & Son 130 You wouldn't expect a couple of cinema super-stars to be running away from publicity. 1936‘Riff’ & ‘Raff’ They're Off! v. 40 A..relation of my own was running a horse with no less a person than our super-star jockey in the saddle. 1969N. Cohn AWopBopaLooBop (1970) xx. 188 He became a superstar but he wasn't happy. 1972Guardian 24 Feb. 14/4 [David] Frost's importance is not the super-star status. 1976Nature 8 Apr. 471/1 Superstar technology is the name given by a working party of the Council for Science and Society to highly innovatory, large scale technical projects. 1978Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. c 14 (Advt.), Hertz, the superstar in the Rent-A-Car industry has an immediate vacancy. 1980M. Fonteyn Magic of Dance 32 From the Charleston it was an easy step to the emergence of a male superstar dancer. 1982London Rev. Bks. IV. xxiv. 20/2 Star quality, however, was not at all what was looked for in those who played opposite a superstar like Kean.
2. Astron. A very important or powerful heavenly body. rare.
1929S. Leslie Anglo-Catholic iv. 58 He..meditated..upon sun and moon, whose counter-changes and performances in the sky he followed with deep amaze. These super-stars of heaven never ceased to vary in effects. 1964[see QSO s.v. Q II. 2 b].
Hence ˈsuperstardom.
1973Harper's Mag. Oct. 111 Apparently, in the eyes of one dazzled by his own celebrity,..superstardom puts a man above the law. 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Apr. 479/2 Hollywood exacts its price for superstardom. |