superstar

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English

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Etymology

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From super- +‎ star.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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superstar (plural superstars)

  1. Someone who has accumulated a vast amount of fame; a high-level celebrity.
  2. (corporate jargon) An exceptionally productive employee.
    • 2014 November 17, Lizzie Widdicombe, “The Programmer's Price”, in The New Yorker[1], archived from the original on 2022-12-28:
      Want to hire a coding superstar? Call the agent.
    • 2017 May 19, Hui Liao, “Career Coach: How to handle the new hotshot on your team”, in The Washington Post[2], archived from the original on 2020-08-28:
      Is your organization looking for its next new hire, that superstar performer to take things to the next level? Be careful: Organizations are greater than just one individual. If you're that superstar, remember to be a good team player. You'll feel better about your job and you'll perform at an even higher level.
    • 2017 October 15, Tara Golshan, “Study finds 75 percent of workplace harassment victims experienced retaliation when they spoke up”, in Vox[3], archived from the original on 2023-02-11:
      "A superstar employee that is creating that toxic work environment is probably costing that company more than he or she is bringing in," Martin says.
    • 2022 June 27, Ariel Shapira, “As 'Tindery' hiring dies down, Unboxable's AI steers companies toward retention”, in The Jerusalem Post[4], archived from the original on 2023-02-07:
      There's no sense in hiring a superstar developer who will quit after three months because she can't stand the management style or requires flexibility the hiring company doesn't offer.
  3. (rare, astronomy) A giant star.
    • 1964, Life: Volume 56, No. 4[5], →ISBN, page 11:
      The greater an object's mass, the greater its gravitational force. If a star could attain a certain mass --- say a million to 100 million times the mass of our own sun --- then its gravity would become 100 times as powerful as the forces generated by the strongest known nuclear reactions. Such a super superstar, in a normal course of its evolution, would contract..
    • 1975, Harold W. G. Allen, The Edge of the Universe: What is Our Destiny? Is There Life After Death? What Incredible Secret Lies in the Depths of Space?[6], Allen Book Pub., page 36:
      Toward the centre of the cluster, where they were more strongly congested, the whole region glowed as though as it were a monstrous superstar.
    • 1979, Michael Zeilik, Astronomy: The Evolving Universe[7], Harper and Row, →ISBN, page 379:
      Perhaps a supermassive cluster can coalesce to form a superstar -- a star with a mass of 1 million to 100 million solar masses.
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Anagrams

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English superstar.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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superstar f (plural superstars)

  1. superstar (person)

Further reading

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English superstar. By surface analysis, super- +‎ star.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /su.perˈstar/, /su.peˈstar/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ar
  • Hyphenation: su‧per‧stàr

Noun

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superstar f (invariable)

  1. superstar, megastar

References

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  1. ^ superstar in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English superstar.

Noun

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superstar n (plural superstaruri)

  1. superstar

Declension

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English superstar.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌsupeɾesˈtaɾ/ [ˌsu.pe.ɾesˈt̪aɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ

Noun

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superstar m or f by sense (plural superstars)

  1. superstar
    Synonym: superestrella
    • 2007, El sueño de Morfeo, Mi columna de opinión:
      No soy una superstar aunque haya fotos en revistas y fans
      I'm not a superstar even if there are photos in magazines and fans

Usage notes

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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.