stardust

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See also Stardust

English

Etymology

star +‎ dust.

Noun

stardust (usually uncountable; plural stardusts)

1. Particles of matter that fall from the stars down to Earth; often used idiomatically to suggest a fanciful or dreamlike quality.

   My sister's eyes were full of stardust, and she'd spend hours lazily planning her future life when she would make her big break in the movies.

2. (informal, dated, astronomy) A distant cluster of stars, resembling a cloud, the individual stars of which cannot be resolved.

Synonyms

• (particles): cosmic dust

Translations

particles

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宇宙塵 (cmn), 宇宙尘 (cmn) (yǔzhòuchén)

• Dutch: sterrenstof (nl) n
• Finnish: avaruuspöly (fi); (idiomatically) aikapöly (fi)
• French: poussière cosmique (fr) f; (idiomatically) poudre magique (fr) f

• German: kosmischer Staub (de) m
• Japanese: 宇宙塵 (ja) (うちゅうじん, uchūjin)
• Latvian: kosmiskie putekļi (lv) m pl
• Russian: межзвёздная пыль (ru) (mežzvjózdnaja pylʹ) f, космическая пыль (ru) (kosmíčeskaja pylʹ) f, (romance) романтика (ru) (romántika) f

dated: distant cluster of stars

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 星塵 (cmn), 星尘 (cmn) (xīngchén)

• Finnish: tähtisumu (fi)
• French: poussière d'étoiles (fr) f, amas stellaire (fr) m

• German: Sternenstaub (de) m
• Japanese: 星屑 (ja) (ほしくず, hoshikuzu), スターダスト (ja) (sutādasuto)
• Russian: звёздная пыль (ru) (zvjózdnaja pylʹ) f