Stern

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Himmelskörper

Planet

Sterne am Nachthimmel — Stars in the night sky (1, 2)

Eine Annimation vom Stern Sirius — An animation of the star Sirius. (2)

Flag of Chile (3,4)

Etymology

From Old High German sterno, from Proto-Germanic *sternǭ, *sternô (compare Dutch ster (“star”), Old English steorra (“star”) ( Modern English star ), Danish stjerne (“star”), Swedish stjärna (“star”), Icelandic stjarna (“star”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐍉 (stairnō)). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Further cognates include Latin stēlla (“star”), Greek ἀστήρ (astēr, “star”) and Sanskrit तारा (tārā, “star”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʃtɛʁn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛʁn

Noun

Stern m (genitive Sternes or Sterns, plural Sterne, diminutive Sternchen)

1. a star; a small luminous dot that can be seen on the night sky
   • 1924, Friedrich Bernhard Störzner, Das weiße Männchen auf dem Kirchberge, in: Reinhardtswalder Sagenbüchlein, Buchhandlung Otto Schmidt, page 11:

     Droben am Himmel funkelten die Sterne in seltener Pracht.

     Up in the sky the stars sparkled in unusual magnificence.

   Barnards Stern — Barnard's Star

   Morgenstern — morning star

2. (astronomy) a star; the actual celestial body
3. (geometry) a star or anything that resembles such an object

   fünfzackiger Stern — five-pointed star

   Davidstern — Star of David

4. (heraldry) a star

   Der Stern ist auf vielen Nationalflaggen zu finden. — The star can be found quite often on national flags.

   Sternenbanner — stars and stripes (nickname for the flag of the USA)

   NATO-Stern — NATO star

   der rote Stern — the red star

5. (printing) an asterisk (*)
6. (figuratively) a star, a celebrity, something or somebody popular

   Ein neuer Stern am Schlagerhimmel. — A new star (=celebrity, famous person) in the branch of pop music.

7. a star; the symbol used to rate hotels, movies, etc.

   fünf Sterne Hotel — five star hotel

8. (meteorology) a stellar crystal, a snow crystal possessing the shape of a star

Declension

declension of Stern

	singular			plural
m gender	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Stern	die	Sterne
genitive	eines	des	Sternes, Sterns	der	Sterne
dative	einem	dem	Stern, Sterne (archaic)	den	Sternen
accusative	einen	den	Stern	die	Sterne

Hypernyms

• Himmelskörper m

Hyponyms

• Sonne f

Synonyms

• (star): Gestirn n, Sonne f (imprecise, not professional)
• (asterisk): Sternchen n (more common), Asterisk m
• (star, celebrity): Star m

Derived terms

Derived terms

Abendstern m Davidstern m Doppelstern m Fixstern m Fröbelstern m Hundsstern m Judenstern m Mehrfachstern m Morgenstern m Neutronenstern m Polarstern m

sternbesät Sternbild n Sternchen n Sterndeutung f Sternentstehung f Sternhaufen m sternhagelvoll Sternschnuppe f Sternsystem n Sternwolken f Wandelstern m

Related terms

Related terms

Blauer Riese m Brauner Zwerg m Roter Riese m Roter Zwerg m

Weißer Zwerg m Schwarzer Zwerg m Schwarzes Loch n

See also

• Planet m
• Sonne f